Mr. John Hogan:

I will get to that in a second. It provides a solution whereby people in private housing hand over control of their homes to the local authority and move into the social housing structure. The problem is that the nature of its implementation has been complicated. The Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and the Housing Agency, which has administrative responsibility for the scheme, are examining how it can be streamlined. The Chairman is right in that there is an issue. There is a great deal of pressure on social housing and there are initiatives to extend and enhance the number of homes being built in that regard, but no more than the general housing supply issue, that takes time to feed through.