Mr. John McCarthy:

I do not have information on that but we can certainly get the Deputy some information on that because there will certainly be some properties that are either unsuitable by virtue of the house type or the location. We can certainly come back to the Deputy on that issue. In respect of the other schemes that are in play, as the Deputy rightly mentioned, apart from the acquisitions, which have an overall target of 1,600 units, we have the mainstream housing acquisition programme.

One of my colleagues might correct me, but that figure will be approximately 10,000 over the lifetime of Rebuilding Ireland. For the repair and leasing scheme, there is a target of 3,500 units in that time. Ten days ago the Minister announced that we would be accelerating early delivery to a minimum of 800 units this year. The other significant scheme is the buy and renew scheme. Our initial aim is to handle 400 to 500 units this year and next. Extrapolating forward leaves one with something in the order of 1,500 to 2,000 units over the lifetime of the programme. In the pilot exercise that has been under way in counties Waterford and Carlow it has been found that some property owners are interested in making their units available for housing but not under the repair and leasing scheme. They would prefer to avail of the buy and renew scheme. We are trying to intertwine the two.