Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and that is why the last 12 months have witnessed a transformation in terms of putting the State centre stage in the provision of social and affordable housing. The Housing for All strategy announced by the Government provides for unprecedented resources next year and the year after. Some 11,000 social houses are to be provided next year. That will ultimately turn around the HAP experience and will result in fewer people on HAP and more people housed through social housing programmes. Equally, the State, through local authorities and through the Land Development Agency, will be providing affordable houses for young people, in particular, and for renters who are currently renting to enable them to buy houses that they can afford.

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