A constituent of mine, a man who was finally allocated a property in October last year after 18 years on the Kildare County Council list only to be told he cannot move in to his long-awaited home because there is no street lighting installed, may, worse still, be forced into emergency accommodation. The Tánaiste promised Housing for All and yet people waiting years on housing lists are now unable to move in to their housing due to utility supply companies, such as Electric Ireland and Uisce Éireann, dragging their collective heels in connecting basic services to this housing. What measures can the Government take to push these entities to do what they are supposed to do and to ensure people, such as my constituent, can move in to their long-awaited housing promptly? This is disgraceful. Imagine giving somebody the answer that they may put him into emergency accommodation even though he has been granted a house after 18 years. What is the Tánaiste going to do? It is absolutely disgraceful.

First of all, the number of social houses being built is way greater than anything in many years. It is record numbers. It means that people are being offered social housing now, which is a good thing.

They are not getting into them.

The Government cannot organise every single connection to every single public light in the country. There are people paid and funded to do that. I agree that they should go away and get it done and the person should occupy the house. We need to focus where the issues are - on the utilities or on the local authority. There is a limit to what the Dáil has to-----

One cannot put people into emergency accommodation who have been allocated a house.

They are funded and they should go and do it.

Nobody should be 18 years by the way. That is another matter. I do not know the background to the case or the individual. The bottom line is the house has been allocated. They should get the public lighting sorted.

They should not get emergency accommodation either.

That is a matter for the local authority.