Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When it comes to housing, delivery figures tend to be lower at the start of the year and increase throughout the course of the year. We are helping people to buy their first homes in many ways. There is the help to buy scheme, which must be factored in, the first home scheme, which is very popular, and vacancy grants for turning derelict properties into use. There are also local authority home loans. There are many ways in which we are helping people to buy their first homes. It is important that those are included in the figures.

The Deputy was right; it is the case that roughly 500,000 people still live at home. It is roughly one in seven or one in eight adults. It was much the same ten or 15 years ago. Included in that are people who are students and people who are 18 and still in school but the Deputy did not say that part of it.

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