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

We will deliver this year about 10,500 new social homes across the country. I think even Deputy Boyd Barrett may say that is a significant uplift and it is welcome to the 10,500 households, many of whom I have the pleasure of meeting right across the country, who are getting their safe and secure home for life.

What is important as well is that, for the first time in nearly a generation, we will have affordable homes to purchase through our local authorities, through the first home scheme and through the Land Development Agency, which many Deputies opposite also opposed. In addition, there are hundreds of cost rental tenancies in place and hundreds and thousands more on the way. There are massive opportunities for cost rental. We are doing a piece of work in regard to a further revision of cost rental and we have made changes to the cost rental equity loan, CREL, scheme funding arrangements which have already yielded results, with additional cost rental schemes coming over the last few weeks.

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