Mr. John McCarthy:

More importantly, in terms of the point you are making, Chairman, it is a good price and has not been sold. I am aware of that from the part of the country where my parents live. There are two three-bedroom, normal, semi-detached houses on either side of my parents' house that have been for sale for €195,000 for two years and they have not been bought. From the point of view of sustainable communities and the efficient use of public infrastructure, if those opportunities remain and the local authority is not competing with other purchasers, and if they are vacant for that long it is not, we do not wish to put more infrastructure in to stretch the water pipe further outside the town and put another scheme outside it. We have to examine these on a case-by-case basis.