Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Senator. I will consider the proposal he has made about where we initiate the legislation. The Senator is aware of the importance of the AHB sector to our delivery stream. When we talk about the State building social housing and local authorities building social housing, we include what the AHBs are doing because they are one of the new delivery streams that were not there in the past. They are building fantastic homes, some of which provide for the quite niche requirements of some of our population who have different and special needs. They make a very important contribution to increasing the overall stock of social housing that we have at the moment. We are almost there in terms of the legislation. It is priority legislation for me. I want to have it published before the end of the Dáil term. If we can do it by initiating it in the Seanad I will certainly consider it.