Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister knows, the shared equity loan homes are not affordable. They are giving people an additional layer of debt but I do not want to have that debate today. What I want to know is what was delivered with the funding provided by the Minister to local authorities and AHBs? We know from the LDA’s website that Project Tosaigh delivered only 48 cost-rental homes last year. As of October only 300 cost-rental homes had been delivered by AHBs but that included the 35 delivered the previous year. On the basis of information I have, I suspect that not a single affordable home to purchase through the affordable housing fund was actually completed or purchased last year. We know, for example, that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the brief to Deputy Paschal Donohoe when he became Minister stated that there would be fewer than 1,000 delivered. Is that the kind of ballpark figure the Minister expects when he gets the final figures from officials in the coming weeks?

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