Mr. John McCarthy:

In 2016, we were really in a state of trying to crank up the public housing programme. We encountered some successes in some areas and some slowness in others. We, in a conscious way, tried to operate that whatever the total funding that was available to us for housing would be expended. We tried to fire the fuel into all of the engines and get them all up and running so that in some places, where there was a slower than expected response, we had other parts of the housing programme where we were able to deliver. In overall terms, yes, some elements of it were slower to get back up and running but we accelerated in other areas to ensure that we were able to move money and get the product, in terms of critically important housing, delivered in overall terms.