Mr. Dick Brady:

There had to be a declared emergency.

The Deputy asked a question about mixed tenure developments. He will know that Dublin City Council has been trying, for the last 12 months or so, through an initiative called the land initiative, to develop three sites which have the potential to produce approximately 1,300 units. We are in the process of moving that along. While it is moving along, concerns have been expressed in some quarters. The communities adjacent to some of the proposed developments are extremely worried about their scale, even though the intention is to produce social housing alongside owner-occupier housing as well as another type of tenure that we are trying to develop. We see a gap in the market in that we have families who are not entitled to social housing but who cannot afford to purchase property. We see the need for some form of affordable renting in the mix. We could have what we are calling public housing which would be a mixture of affordable rental and social housing, supplemented by units for purchase. We are hoping to bring proposals to the council for one of the sites quite soon but are still working on the proposals for the other two sites.

What we are trying to do is to bring such a model to fruition.