Mr. Brendan Kenny:

I will respond to some of the questions that were asked. The target for Dublin City Council is very challenging. It is 9,094. When we saw that it frightened the life out of us. I have heard it said that the target was too low. It will be a major challenge for us to achieve that, but it is our aim to do so and exceed it. If we go back to the Department tomorrow and say we can exceed that we will be very happy. The Department will not prevent us increasing that.

One of the challenges for us is land, which is not mentioned often enough. There is a perception that the local authority has a lot of land. We have 120 ha in the city, 93 ha of it is already in the housing delivery report, and the balance of it is in the Ballymun, Cherry Orchard and Darndale areas where there is a huge concentration of social housing.