Tánaiste Micheál Martin defends government housing plan amidst critics' claims of unmet affordable housing targets.

Tánaiste Micheál Martin maintains that the government's housing plan is working to provide more affordable homes, but acknowledges that housing demand still outweighs supply. Critics, including Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns, argue that the government has not met its affordable housing targets for last year, delivering 499 affordable purchase and 966 cost-rental homes. Cairns asserts that this represents a government failure to address the issue of affordable housing.