Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be very quick as well because I was not trying to exclude Deputy Gould in any way. The homelessness task force has been very useful. I will report to the committee and we publish minutes of those meetings as well. We are tracking those numbers but we know that behind each number is a person and family. We are tracking it weekly and there is a monthly report. It has been very useful to focus minds and it is the first meeting we do every Monday.

The matter of the €600 million fund goes to the Dáil tomorrow, and if it passes, which it should, we will start the dispersal of those funds pretty much straight away. There will be no delay on our side. It will be a matter of days.

The pilot scheme related to energy efficiency is up, and running and other work has also been done on social homes. We will expand it further but I want to see how the pilot scheme works. The programme for Government commits to a significant retrofit scheme, and I want to show that our State can lead with our social housing stock, which is under my control, in that.

There is a detailed report on where the €43 million for Irish Water is being spent, and specifically the leak reduction projects. This is small money in the grand scheme of things. The works in Leixlip have nearly concluded. This committee investigated the matter and I intend to visit Leixlip in the next couple of weeks. I was in Blanchardstown on Friday looking at significant capital investment, with €88 million being spent on new wastewater treatment and attenuation measures there. We are now negotiating our capital funding for next year, and I hope there will be an increase.

There has been a slow initial delivery with the serviced sites fund and I have been critical of that before. There is funding for approximately 3,200 homes and, of that, approximately €127 million has already been allocated. There is more there and I am looking at how we might be able to speed up the process or change the serviced sites fund to deliver more, and particularly affordable homes on State-owned land. We are looking at other affordability measures, including affordable rent and affordable purchase, which I am currently negotiating. We got approval at Cabinet last Monday to move that through to the detailed preparatory stage. That is good. If the Deputy has anything else, we can come back to her.