Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

In the previous election, the Government promised it would deliver 10,000 affordable homes each and every year. Not only did it fail to deliver on this promise, it failed to meet the much more modest targets it set last year, when only 499 affordable purchase homes were actually delivered. The Minister promised when we previously had oral questions that he would answer my priority question. Why has the Government not provided the early-stage finance that is so badly needed to ensure that more affordable purchase homes are built?

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