Ms Cathy Bryce:

On what were called regeneration PPP schemes, they are not similar to the current initiatives. They were quite different. They were more akin to the land initiatives whereby the private sector built a mixture of private and social homes and used some of the moneys from selling the private land and houses to subsidise the social homes. They were short-term contractual arrangements. These are long-term arrangements. I accept the Deputy's point about local authorities. My understanding is the mainstay in meeting the very significant requirement for social housing in the next few years will be the local authorities undertaking their own building and management.

On the cost-rental site mentioned by the Deputy, we do not have any involvement on the Ballymun site. Therefore, I cannot comment on it.