Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Pringle has asked a question and I have answered it straight. The review is under way. The Deputy need not try to make something out of it that it is not. I have said it on the record of the Dáil. I mean it. The review needs to happen, and it is happening. It has to take into account the new measures on affordability we are introducing. I am bringing changes forward for larger families. I have already signed them in respect of the additional income that would be permitted per child. Some of those measures are coming through.

Further social housing reform is required. A lot of work has been done by me and my colleagues in the Department on that issue. I expect in the autumn of this year to bring some of those reforms forward. I intend that the review will be completed this year. I am not trying to massage any figures or anything like it. We have the single biggest budget in the history of the State for the delivery of social housing.

I have been in Donegal with Deputy Pringle and have seen the homes delivered by the local authorities there. There are some fantastic estates. Donegal County Council has more money now than it has ever had to deliver social homes, and I want it to do more. That is the target we have set this year. I assume the Deputy will support us in that endeavour.

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