Mr. Brendan Kenny:

We have just over 2,000 units earmarked for affordable housing in the city. There is probably potential for more than that. There are also 1,650 earmarked for cost rental. One problem for us, as identified earlier, will be that our preference has to be for social housing. We have 17,500 on the waiting list and we only have a limited amount of land. There are only certain parts of the city where we can do affordable housing. Trying to get affordable, cost rental and social housing will be a challenge. Those are the numbers but we think there is potential for more.

The timelines are very frustrating. O'Devaney Gardens or the Oscar Traynor site estates are major projects, for example. They were only finally approved by Dublin City Council in January 2017. That is two years ago and we are now ready to go which is not bad compared to other projects. The process of public procurement, design, consultation, cost benefit analysis and so on just has to be done. It is up to us to streamline it as much as possible, which is what we are trying to do. Having frameworks in place, with design teams and contractors does make a difference. Having only been approved in January 2017, their progress is not bad for big projects of their nature.