Mr. Declan Dunne:

Approved housing bodies, AHBs, are involved in supporting people in need in the rental sector. To date, we have worked in social housing rental and now, through the legislation, we will be involved in supporting other income groups through cost rental. Our opinions are limited to that part of the work that we are involved in. We are happy with what we see with the legislation. We are particularly interested in hearing the details that will come later on the conditions that will apply to the cost rental equity loan and the specific eligibility criteria and so on which will be announced soon. Otherwise, once the value of this is established along with the value for money and the value for tenants is established, our focus is on how it can be scaled-up in the future.