Mr. Paul Lemass:

The drawdown of private funding in 2020 and 2021 is probably more for a colleague from the Department of Finance. We are not suggesting that quality regulation and reclassification off-balance sheet are mutually exclusive. If it is possible to do both we will work to do both. We need to conduct more investigation into possible solutions to the reclassification issue that we can then bring to bear on colleagues in CSO and the Department of Finance. That is probably the direction of travel, that we agree and identify a possible way forward, then take it to Finance rather than have it comment on our proposed legislation and saying if we do this, that will happen. It is better that we proactively study the legislation and see where we can take it.

The Deputy would not expect me to say anything other than that a housing need has been met when a person has been awarded HAP.