Mr. Niall Cussen:

It is all right. The State absolutely has an obligation in respect of social and affordable housing. It also has an obligation to ensure there is effective housing supply in all sectors of society. There are people who need social housing. There are people who need assistance to ensure the houses they are struggling to provide for themselves are affordable to them. There are people who are looking to buy or rent homes and have the economic conditions to do so. That is good for them. We have to provide housing for all sectors of society. That is a fundamental tenet of Government policy. It is important, in the context of ensuring there is a braided solution to meeting complex housing requirements across society, to appreciate that we cannot lock up public lands for one segment of society only. As I have said, the 10% and 30% framework is not coming from some sort of economic or balance sheet perspective. It is coming from the perspective of securing balanced mixed-tenure communities and so on. I suppose it is very much a baseline objective. The Deputy mentioned a particular initiative in a certain local authority area. I think he will see many such projects advancing throughout the work of the LDA, particularly using Housing Agency lands but not necessarily restricted to them. It would be wrong to say that developments on public lands will never involve more than 10% social housing and 30% affordable housing. We need to provide housing for all.