Would the Minister agree that the position is——

The Minister does not even have the full figures.

Would the Minister agree that the allocation made to local authorities is totally inadequate for the needs of their housing programmes? Is he aware that in the town of Newbridge, County Kildare, where 39 houses were built there were over 400 applicants? Furthermore, is he aware that the only houses coming on stream in the county over the next two years will be those becoming vacant through the death or emigration of their tenants; that there are over 1,500 families on the housing list in County Kildare, that there is a housing crisis there and yet no money is being provided?

I must dissuade the Deputy from making a speech.

The Deputy got the figures he wanted on the record. I do not have the figures in respect of applicants for every single housing scheme or local authority before me and the Deputy knows that.

That is very obvious.

I would have a fairly bulky file had I all those details.

The Minister is displaying the incompetence of his Department in not knowing what is happening on the ground.

The Deputy can charge me with whatever he likes but he should please not charge the Department with anything except the most efficient administration that has ever existed in that Department which cannot be said of previous administrations.