Ms Gillian Roche:

It comes back to the nominations agreement. The local authority assesses people as being in need of social housing, identifies them as eligible and places them on the housing list. Under the terms of their capital funding, the AHBs are required to fill at least 75% of their units from this list. Effectively, in national accounts terms we are saying this is a mechanism for local government to meet an obligation to people identified as eligible for a service. If it was not done this way, it would have to be done in another way by the local authority.