TUI is gravely concerned by the failure to address the housing crisis. Government must, as a matter of extreme urgency, invest in and implement an extensive programme for the provision of social and affordable housing. The ideologically blinkered approach of looking to the private sector is exacerbating the crisis. Therefore, rather than relying excessively on a self-interested private sector – an approach that has manifestly failed - government must re-instate the local authorities as providers of such housing and provide the necessary funding.