Mr. John McCarthy:

If one looks back over the past five or six years, and traces the progression of the more constrained financial environment in which we have found ourselves, in order to maximise the level of social housing output in a value for money way, we have found ourselves re-orientating our housing programme more towards instruments such as the rental accommodation scheme and the leasing programme. In an earlier discussion, I tried to put this in context. Deputy O'Donnell may not have been here at that stage, but it is no problem. As a way of trying to highlight the importance of that re-orientation in how we approached housing delivery, the example I used was that if one looked at the three years, 2010 to 2012, during which time we spent just over €38 million on leasing, that allowed us to meet the needs of about 3,500 households.