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

-----and social housing. Deputies selectively quote targets that are not being reached but what about the target of close to 30,000 houses, which is significantly above the target that was set of just over 24,000 for last year, which was the expectation? On the biggest target of all, namely the overall delivery of housing, we are way ahead of schedule and we need to be. Let us look at this in the round and quote all of the statistics rather than hand-picking individual ones.

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