James Browne: “I am genuinely appalled that the type of contact we are hearing about happening would be made in the first place to any…”

I have set ambitious targets in the Housing Action Plan and we need to keep our shoulder firmly to the wheel. I want more homes delivered and thousands of people are counting on that progress. I'm under no illusion about it.

This is going to be implemented and will be implemented in time for the next local elections.

I think it's a social good for somebody to be able to live where their family lives, where their friends are, where they grew up, and it adds to that local community.

I do not find it acceptable and I don't want these figures to be normalised by the system, the state or by society.