Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

We deal with local authorities at many different levels. We have an in-house planning team, which talks to local authority planning departments all the time about the sites we have, whether there is an local area plan coming up and whether something is to be zoned or unzoned. When we are in pre-consultation discussions with receivers and debtors around specific sites, we discuss how many houses could be built on a site and what type of houses they could be. We do all the pre-planning discussions that everybody else on the market does. That goes on the whole time. We also have ongoing discussions with local authorities, sometimes directly and sometimes through the Department of Education and Skills, where the Department will say there is land in a particular town and a new school is needed. We talk to the planners and they say, "Yes." Part of that will be designated for a school site and then we engage with local authorities on a mechanism to sell the site to the Department of Education and Skills or a local authority. In fairness to the local authorities, we have good engagement with them, particularly on the planning side with the directors of planning.