This Thursday, Cork City Council will open a portal for affordable housing in Tower in Blarney. Some of these affordable housing units will be sold for over €300,000. As the Taoiseach knows, house prices in Dublin are much higher than they are in Cork but still, South Dublin County Council and Fingal County Council can sell similar sized houses for €30,000 less. I have a simple question for the Taoiseach. What is the maximum price that a three-bedroom affordable family home should be sold for in Cork?

I believe the price in the Boherboy affordable scheme is much lower.

I am talking about the Tower scheme.

The Boherboy scheme is in Cork also, as the Deputy is aware, and the prices are lower. Obviously, it depends on location and a whole range of factors, such as input costs and such matters. I pay tribute to Cork County Council for moving on the affordable schemes a bit faster than other local authorities. That is what we want. There is no one uniform price.

A price of €300,000 is not affordable.

There are different levels of affordability in different locations, taking into account the costs involved in developing a particular site and so forth. Our main aim and target is to get housing as affordable as we possibly can for people and, through other schemes such as the first home scheme, to make houses that young people wish to buy affordable also. It is not just the affordable housing scheme the local authorities are doing but also the first home scheme, the shared equity and help-to-buy schemes and a range of other measures that we are deploying to make housing more affordable for people.

At what price does the Taoiseach consider these houses should be selling?

We are not auctioneers.

They are supposed to be affordable housing, a Cheann Comhairle.

We are not here to provide auctioneering advice. I call Deputy Mythen.