Mr. John McCarthy:

To return to part of my earlier conversation with Deputy Cullinane, Rebuilding Ireland tries to recognise that we have issues right across the housing spectrum - all the way from the incredibly difficult situations of people in homelessness through to the rental sector and the delivery of social housing and housing in general. We need to address the issues in all those strands and we are doing that. One of the issues raised consistently is around the use of public land. People ask why public land is not being brought into use for housing to a greater extent. There is a significant uptick in the use of land owned by local authorities, particularly for social housing, but there is also land in wider public ownership. The Land Development Agency was established to lead the process of bringing parcels of available public sector land into use for multiple purposes related to housing, including general housing delivery and the delivery of social housing through Part V.