Mr. John McCarthy:

The implementation of the social housing strategy contains an element that will see units developed through PPP arrangements. The question is whether this is suitable for the sites that we are discussing now, in other words, those that have been transferred into the scheme. Many of them are relatively small in size and may not be suitable for a public private partnership in its truest and purest sense. However, there may be other ways in which other arrangements involving partnerships between a local authority and a private builder may come to pass. Indeed, in recent days as part of the implementation of the strategy Dublin City Council has initiated a process to seek expressions of interest in respect of the development of a number of sites. I envisage similar arrangements in other local authority areas.