David Norris (Independent)

We have been given all the drug rehabilitation units, homes for single mothers and everything that is socially positive but which the middle classes do not want near their back or front doors. Let us have something nice in the form of Government investment in the north inner city of Dublin.

Irish citizens are unusual in our belief that we have a right to a house. I am not sure how absolute that is as a human right. I listened to an analysis of this matter on the BBC. We are unusual in the amount of local authority housing we provide. Is 60,000 the correct figure for this year?