Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

Fianna Fáil is in the majority on most councils. The Government needs to do more than provide county councils with money to deliver council housing. Much more needs to be done. Councils must also receive back-up in terms of resources to deliver such houses.

One of the Government's most promising provisions was the Planning and Development Act which required developers to provide a certain amount of social housing. However, the Government has not held firm in that regard. It is unable to stand up to developers and the type of people who attend the Fianna Fáil tent at the Galway races and to make them understand that this is a permanent provision on which they will have to deliver.