Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am entitled to explain. What was said to me was that our Department has told local authorities to sell off zoned social housing land that they own. That is not true. I want to be clear that we have not done that.

The last set of questions were about State-owned lands and increased rental properties. Senator Colm Burke should know that this is exactly what we are trying to do. We are trying to bring in and encourage long-term rental schemes. We have issued new guidelines to local authorities on the build to rent initiative, which I believe will work.

On the issue of staffing levels, there have been increased staffing levels-----