Page 23 of the programme for Government commits to a new model of affordable rental to be delivered within the first 100 days of Government. In fact, the detail of the cost rental model was to be rolled out in the third quarter of 2016. Unfortunately, we have yet to see it. With tens of thousands of individuals and families who are ineligible for social housing increasingly locked out of the private rental and home purchase markets, when will the model of affordable rental be introduced? Will legislation be enacted to ensure that local authorities can run such schemes?

There is a category of people who are caught out because their incomes are too high for local authority housing and too low to access mortgages. They attend our clinics every week and there are, unfortunately, very few options for them. Very little is being done for this category of people and it is deeply frustrating. Action is required. The cost rental model is one of the things that needs to be done but further action is also required.

The Minister with responsibility for this area has announced a whole range of initiatives to help those on a variety of income levels to access housing. A huge and unprecedented capital commitment has been made and a whole range of initiatives from social housing to rental proposals are part and parcel of Rebuilding Ireland.