Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Senator. On the data sets, this drives me bananas as well, because I hear people quoting different numbers and I wonder where they are getting them from because they do not seem to add up in terms of the information available to me. A team is doing a piece of work on that and its main objective is to establish how we count completions because we are no longer counting connections to the ESB grid as completions. It is about how we get at that accurate figure. A small group in the communications office in my Department is trying to come up with a clearer table of information that anyone can access through the website with information.

On the construction status report, I am about to publish that. It may not be this week because of timelines and trying to get a lot done but to give the Senator a couple of numbers, as of end of the second quarter, 92 schemes are at stage 4 and that covers 2,267 homes. A further 161 schemes are on site and that is for 2,701 homes. A further 111 schemes have reached practical completion and that is for 1,116 homes. Good progress is being made in those numbers but the report will go into that in more detail when I publish it.

The Senator asked about the inventory of lands. Local authorities are required by their auditors to make sure they have an inventory of all lands in their ownership. What we are interested in is the land that can be used for housing and as part of the work we are doing, they must hand back to us the strategic plans for their lands by the end of September because we have housing targets for them that we are co-ordinating with them at present as a result of the housing summit.