Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)

I appreciate the Minister will get back to me tomorrow. I read all of the task force minutes, although they were delivered late. I do my best to keep up. I am still waiting on the minutes of two meetings. They have never reached their targets. This is why the task force continues to sit, albeit under a new name. It has been sitting since 2018 because we had a housing emergency. It has repeatedly failed to deliver the targets. Galway has land and public housing should be built on it. This is not what is happening. It is simply not happening. We are getting grant schemes for the future with absolutely no hope of delivery in the foreseeable future. No affordable houses have been delivered. I ask the Minister to tell me if I am wrong and I will be the first to say sorry. Not one affordable housing has been built. Some of the schemes the Government visited in Connemara have not got off the ground. A holiday scheme was opened by a voluntary body and it never got off the ground.

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