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

------in terms of the overall number of houses built. The reality is that looking at the figures on home completions, commencements, permissions, home purchases, first-time buyers and mortgage draw downs, they are encouraging this year. They give us confidence that the Government's overall 2022 supply target will be met, but we need to go higher than that every other year. That means, and I have said it consistently to everybody in the House, that if we want to reach those targets into the future and we really want to provide the supply that will be needed to reduce homelessness, then we all need to put the shoulder to the wheel and ensure that in every local authority in the country we allow housing projects through and get them through.

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