Chairman:

I welcome the Minister, Deputy Coveney and his Department officials. This is a continuation of our action plan for housing discussion from last week. We have agreed that all questions are to be put through the Chair. We have an hour to go through pillars 2 and 3 together and pillars 4 and 5 together. We are not going back over pillar 1 again and therefore do not expect the Minister to answer questions on pillar 1. Any supplementary questions will be taken at the end. I invite the Minister to address pillars 2 and 3.