Mr. John McCarthy:

Yes, 4.13. In terms of 4.6, which covers the second point Deputy Ó Broin raised as well, in the rental strategy published before Christmas what was signalled was that the affordable rental scheme, as initially conceived, would now be taken forward on a land basis or site-specific basis in rent pressure zone areas.

We are working intensively with Dublin City Council and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to try to work through the modelling arrangements by which a value is extracted from the land and turned into a subsidy for a proportion of the rental units. We are trying to use O'Devaney as a test bed or a model to learn lessons and then roll it out more generally.

In respect of 4.12, there are different elements of work on publicly owned lands. By the end of this month, we hope to have a web-based system in place that will show in overall terms the lands nationally that are zoned for residential use, all the lands owned by local authorities and the land aggregation scheme sites that are available for housing. We will also have the first outputs from work we are doing with the broader State agency family in respect of lands it has that are potentially suitable for housing. We hope to have that by the end of the month. We will then bring further land activities on stream in the following months, one of which is the potential to use some for student housing. We will also map our social housing pipeline of 504 projects as published to create a land for housing web-based system. It will be possible to add layers to show zoning, social housing projects and, starting with the greater Dublin area, we want to see the active private housing sites of ten units or more. That will give an overall sense of a range of housing activities, what is going on and where the land is to support it.

In answer to Deputy Ó Broin's first point about the local electoral areas, I do not have an update on that. When there was a discussion here last month with some of my colleagues, the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, and the Housing Agency, the point was made that the smaller the area the more tricky it is because it runs the risk that a small sample can skew things. The RTB is examining it but I do not have an update on it.