Our job is to get houses built as fast as we possibly can, and as many as we possibly can. What would worry me about the Sinn Féin housing plan is its plans to actually disrupt what the Government has already put in place. It took a number of years to legislate for the Land Development Agency. It is now involved in a whole range of schemes. It needs certainty around its status and its continuity, and the Sinn Féin policy is undermining that certainty and that sense of continuity of a vital housing agency.
I think there's a responsibility on commentators and everybody else is to drill down in terms of what Sinn Féin are proposing, because the number of houses they are saying they will build in five years isn't possible. If you have to wait around for a change or a replacement to the Land Development Agency, and legislation would be needed on that, and if you need legislation in terms of affordable homes schemes in terms of who owns the land and who owns the house, and all of the legal implications of that, you will need legislation to develop a new public housing body for Dublin.
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