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

What we need to do and what we are doing is to increase supply across all tenures. Deputy Paul Donnelly knows that very well because he has been out turning sods with me his own constituency at the largest social and affordable housing schemes in the country. These are in Mulhuddart and in Donabate-Portrane, which is my own area. There are 1,200 homes, which the Deputy’s party objected to, by the way. We are increasing supply and we will do more than 30,000 homes this year. Between 40% and 50% of those will be supported by the State and we have a very strong pipeline going into next year. We are turning the corner on housing delivery.

Challenges certainly remain. The single biggest priority is to enable those who do not have a home to get a home. Yet, all Sinn Féin does oppose every measure we brought forward. I refer to the Land Development Agency, which is delivering hundreds of homes this year and thousands next year, but Sinn Féin is against it. It is against all the grants that are available to first-time buyers - all of them. Inexplicably, the Sinn Féin party continues to object to housing all over the country. Deputy Doherty can ask Deputy Ó Snodaigh, who is behind him, as to why he objected to 200 social and affordable homes in his own constituency.

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