Ms Áine Myler:

That collaboration piece is very important. I lived for the first 22 years of my life in social housing. There has been this idea that it is delivered in some sort of a silo and it is only local authorities that deliver it, that it is only delivered in the one location and everybody has to live in one huge development, marked out as social housing. Mr. O'Mahony of the RIAI talked of a tiered approach to tenure in schemes, which is something that, potentially, the LDA and local authorities could work on together. It is not supposed to be about splendid isolation; it is supposed to be shared living across a number of different property uses.

I do not really understand the long-term leasing of land provision, in particular who would pay the rent. Under our legislation, one cannot create ground rents on houses so I am not sure who would fund that, although I understand the Deputy's point.

The retention of stock has already been mentioned. We sold our public stock at the lowest point in our market and, really and truly, albeit that my parents were recipients under the local authority purchase scheme, I would have to say that, in the long-term interest of the State, we have to look at recycling the stock that we create. It is too expensive to provide it and then sell it at a discount. If not all of it, certainly some proportion needs to be retained.

I could speak ad nauseamon the CPO piece.