Mr. John McCarthy:

I was leaving my housing stuff to the afternoon but as the issue has been raised, I do not want the Deputy to have a sense that we are only now thinking about vacant local authority housing. We have put a significant amount of money into bringing void housing back into use over the last three years in particular and a very significant number of units have been brought back. Clearly, the Deputy is pointing to a particular example of a house in the Claddagh which has been vacant for a long time. I do not know the circumstances of that.