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

The answer is more supply. We need more supply and to build more houses. A total of 20,000 were completed last year, when the Covid lockdown hit us, and we hope to reach a figure of 25,000 in 2022. However, the target in Housing for All is to get to 33,000 houses every year. That is what we need to get to. We need it across all types of housing: private housing, public housing to an unprecedented degree, affordable housing and cost-rental housing.

Deputy McDonald quoted daft.ie. On the key page, the author states, "As ever, the solution remains in the construction of large numbers of market- and cost-rental housing to cater for tenants of all incomes." That is the conclusion on what is required. I know it is very difficult for people. The Housing for All strategy is the correct strategy. The investment is available from the public side. I have seen no real substantive alternatives on the supply issue coming from anybody. We have gone through the figures with all the people involved.

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