Pat Kenny

Because we see there is one behind St.

James' School.

There is a pitch being developed in a partnership with a private company and that seems to be going well.

Now, one of the other areas of your responsibility is housing, and we know that part of the Kevin Street development, and perhaps the Woodgate development, will include the building of housing.

And many people hark back to the 1930s when the corporation, as it was then, built loads of houses, and where in the inner suburbs that were being built in Phibbs, were in Crumlin, Drimna, and so on, that, you know, the state itself, through its local authorities, was a massive builder of local authority housing for people who could not afford to buy their own.

Well, I was going to say, long may the work continue.

It'll have to continue one way or the other.

It's not a kind of a wishful thing.

It has to.

Yeah, yeah.

That process seems largely to have stalled and we all wonder why.

But wasn't it the case that even pre-crash, when the Celtic Tiger was booming, that it was more convenient for local authorities, whatever housing they were built, just get one of the developers in and get them to do it.

Finally, Eddie, if people want to help, and I know they do, but, I mean, what should they do?

Should they go on your website?

So the expertise was being run down anyway.

Eddie Roach, thank you very much for joining us in studio today.

So how many houses do you think you'll build?

And I won't ask you this year because housing takes two, three years of a cycle to get planning and to build and then commission and so on.

So how many houses will you build over the next three years?

Okay.