Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge the fact that much of our local authority housing and social housing is substandard in my constituency and in that of the Deputy. It would be only fair for the Deputy to acknowledge also the huge investment that has gone into improving, upgrading and renewing social housing and local authority housing in my constituency and his. Some major redevelopment is under way throughout the country to improve and bring social housing up to an acceptable standard. This will continue. At the same time, we also need to build a lot more social and affordable housing and private housing. There are capacity constraints. There are only so many construction workers. Construction is paused because of the pandemic. While we would love to do all of these things quickly and at the same time, there are limitations to what we can do but we are doing as much as we can.

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