Mr. Conn Murray:

Picking up on the CPO aspect, we have commenced three recently but we were using the Derelict Sites Act 1990 for a compulsory acquisition which might not come under the heading of CPO. It is slightly different and we have used it successfully because we established an urban and village renewal unit to work throughout the county and we carried out a full land management assessment within the metropolitan area to identify lands and areas for development. We used a different process.

We have successfully acquired properties, where necessary in order to deliver, and our housing programme is part and parcel of our overall regeneration programme and that must be part of output that we deliver on. It is not that we do not use the CPO. We know when to use it. That is an important aspect of this. Every authority has to make the call on that.

We have now restructured within the organisation thanks to the opportunities for the merger with a social housing directorate specifically to respond to Rebuilding Ireland. We have a design and delivery unit with the expertise now built in and the resources to manage design, delivery and procurement as a single unit and develop that expertise. That can be shared too as we go forward.

In response to the question about the loans we are aware that the Minister is carrying out a review. As a sector we looked for that. We are participating in it. I do not have the statistics to date as we are going through the process and will feed into that. We believe it is an excellent product. We believe there are more opportunities there.