Mr. Dick Brady:

Before I get to that, there are a couple of things regarding planning and sites ready. At this point there are 22,000 sites that have planning permission in the Dublin region. There are somewhere in the order of 4,000 units under construction. Taking applications, serviced zones and serviced lands, the total amount available would be somewhere in the order of 80,000. To answer the Deputy's question about serviced land, it is available. That is the first thing I would say.

Families will be shown around the first 22 modular units tomorrow. We will start to see occupation towards the end of this week and into next week. Looking at the timeframe involved, the Government issued its instruction some time around October and here we are now in April. The units have been procured and built and are ready for occupation. We are talking about 20 weeks or thereabouts to push along with 22 units. We also have 131 units in train. Site development works have been tendered in respect of those. Our first works are starting in Finglas either today or tomorrow. There was a little difficulty at the start but that has been resolved. Tomorrow they should be on site and we will move forward with the rest of them. Those units should be available for occupation some time in the autumn. For a normal build of that nature, we could be talking about two and a half to three years from planning to build-out. There is scope within the rapid build model to get early results.