Dr. Aideen Hayden:

I will be brief. When we asked in the interview process about the issue of raising income thresholds, we were told that as long as there is choice-based letting and there are other systems of allocation based on need, increasing the thresholds will make no difference unless an appropriate quantum of housing is available. This brings me back to the purpose of the compilation of our report. We compiled our report to see how we could increase the quantum of council housing within the housing system. It can be seen somewhere in the body of the report that our opinion is that to bring balance to the housing system, approximately 30% of all housing needs to be provided through local authorities or public housing providers. That is the bottom line of where we are coming from with this.