Mr. David Smith:

It would be important, looking at the context of social housing and its development in this country, particularly over recent years, that the approved housing bodies have a clear role to play, given they have specific capacity and specific expertise in particular areas. From a departmental point of view, it was critically important that we would involve those bodies, given their expertise and background in the areas. As I said, it was a policy decision that entailed using every possible option available to us in order to implement the action plan.