Mr. Hugh Brennan:

Yes, exactly and they all get on well together. When the Minister came out, he was going to stay for 15 minutes but ended up staying for two hours. All of the kids were playing around him and it was a lovely day.

We were hearing all of the time that we did not have the capacity but now we do have the capacity. We are getting a lot of philanthropic funding which is enabling us to build up our capacity so that we can scale up. Our capacity at the moment is such that if we had the land, we could start building 940 houses this year. We are only one small co-operative. Think of what the rest of the AHB sector could do if we got our act together.

We have argued in the past that not one square inch of public land should be sold to a private developer for at least the next ten years, until I do not care about it any more. In the meantime, the land should go to the social development side. We have the capacity to deliver but I do not think it is going to happen. The Government is saying that it must sell to the private sector in order to get money to buy more land but that is nonsense. The Government must take a broader view on the value it is getting from its land. As I said already, for every house that is sold, €50,000 goes to the Exchequer. We must think of the benefit to local areas of all of that extra money. It is capitalism but as we have joked previously, with our model even capitalism works.