The Affordable Housing Scheme involves a lot of different proposals, some of them more controversial than others, like the shared equity scheme and the Land Development Agency Bill, which says local  authorities are best placed to assess the level of demand for affordable housing in their functional areas.

So to discuss this further, Kieran Cuddihy was joined by Darragh O’Brien, Minister for Housing.

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