Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is saying that capital investment has increased over the past while. That is true; it has. However, based on the allocation for housing capital specifically, what the Minister has read out is less than what was provided last year. Is the Minister disputing that fact? I take his point that money is going elsewhere in the Department of housing. There will be some increases that may have some impact somewhere. The actual capital allocation is less than last year's. Is there any prospect that the Housing for All targets are going to be revised upwards without the Minister having an additional housing capital allocation above what he has outlined here? He said yesterday that he was going to stay within these parameters so I do not see how we can get any higher targets for next year even though there is an acceptance that we should have higher targets.