Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach about the Government making incorrect claims about housing delivery. He was not able to give a full answer, so I wish to ask him about it again. The Government claims 1,765 new-build social homes were delivered in the first half of this year. Analysis by Laoise Neylon of the Dublin InQuirer shows that the majority of social homes in Dublin city that were categorised as delivered in the first half of this year were not completed. Out of 200 homes claimed to be delivered, 138 were not finished and were still being worked on several months later. This is not disputed by the organisations involved in their delivery. Why are homes that are not completed ending up in the official completion figures of social homes and is this happening in other parts of the country as well?

I am not clear on the big picture point the Deputy is making. We are commencing houses. We are allocating resources to approved housing bodies and to local authorities to build social houses. We want them built as fast as we can get them built and, on a 12-month basis, we can see at the end of the year how many we get built, how many we acquire and how many we lease. That is the key point.

The Government is telling us that homes are finished when they are not.

I will go back to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and get it to respond to the Deputy's specific query, but the broader point is we set a target of 24,600 units of all types of housing this year. We want to exceed that if we can. Next year, we have a target of 29,000, which will be more challenging because of pipeline issues and so on, but we are determined to try to reach the targets we have set on an annual basis.