Ms Geraldine Tallon:

For local authority housing, the capital outturn for 2011 was €189 million and for the rental accommodation scheme, which is current provision, it was roughly €116 million. In 2012, in our estimates for this year, our figure for the rental accommodation scheme is €135 million and our figure for local authority housing is €112 million.

I do not have figures for the previous years but our approach to social housing in recent years has been a reduction in capital provision, a reduction in new local authority construction or, if one likes, an increase in the size of the local authority capital estate; a decrease on that side and an increase in social leasing using the rental accommodation scheme and other sources including the intention to seek to utilise NAMA properties. As that change has taken effect in recent years the social housing capital has reduced and the current provision has increased.