Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

To follow up on that, I want to ask the Taoiseach about claims the Government is making on housing delivery. Is he aware that some of the information that he and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage provide on housing delivery is simply not correct? For example, the Taoiseach claimed in the Dáil last week that the number of housing commencements is up when in fact it is down by 14% over the last year. On the issue of social housing delivery, the Government claims 1,765 new-build social homes were delivered in the first half of this year. An analysis has been done of that figure by Laoise Neylon of the Dublin InQuirer. It shows a significant number of the homes claimed to have been completed in the first half of this year were not completed and were still being worked on several months later. Will the Taoiseach explain to me how homes that are still being worked on end up in the official figures for completed social homes?

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