Mr. John McCarthy:

The initial decision either to buy land or not is a decision of the local authority. We have to give a borrowing consent to the local authority once it has been approved by the elected members in the first instance. We look at the borrowing versus the site and look to be happy it will not involve an exorbitant cost per housing because that is what we look down the road towards but, ultimately, if a local authority made a decision to give land away for another purpose, then it would have to take the financial consequences associated with that.