Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, and what a project that is. I encourage anyone seeking an exemplar for a social housing project to view that really impressive project. We want to have a lot more of that type of stuff and have the budgets to be able to do it. If there are any religious congregations listening that have properties which no longer are in use or which they seek to vacate in the coming months or years, my Department is interested in talking to them and I ask them to make contact with us directly.

On the land aggregation scheme, the Housing Agency will have a report and recommendations ready for my Department on how best to use the land and sites that have been part of this scheme by the first quarter of next year. While I acknowledge this has caused issues in the past for many councils with regard to debt management and so on, our job now is to try to make best use of the lands subject to those purchases and to try to squeeze the best value possible out of them in terms of new housing developments, be they social housing or mixed tenure developments or whatever, and we will proceed with that.

I apologise for the lengthy answer but they were all pretty good questions.