Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No. I am saying they have faith in this Government, and the proof of that is in the numbers. Of course they have a concern around housing. So do we and so does the Deputy. The question is how we respond to that. The Deputy casually forgets where my party came into government and where the country was at that point: under IMF control in terms of finances. We had a completely broken property market, where virtually no houses, except the odd one-off house, were being built around the country. Over a decade and slightly more, we have had to rebuild a housing market, banking system and regulatory model and, so far, we are delivering 30,000 housing units per year.

This is significantly more than was achieved over the past number of years and we will go beyond it this year. A big portion of this will be affordable housing as is needed, and of course it is-----

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