Mr. Frank Curran:

As I said, our ambition is to start as soon as we can. We have the serviced sites fund and I hope it will be expanded. The Bill will provide us with the clarity and certainty we need with regard to eligibility, priority and the charging period. We are now in a position to start to acquire land. Our plan is to provide these in as short a timeframe as possible to provide mixed tenure developments. As soon as we have concrete targets available, we will certainly send them to the committee and pass them on to the communities. Each local authority now recognises this as a priority for very obvious reasons. We hear it from our councillors in their respective council chambers. There is a demand for affordable housing and cost rental and we will certainly act on it. Applications can be made as soon as the schemes are complete. We will be looking for applications and people will be applying. As I said, we will be looking at eligibility in terms of what people can afford to pay. We will be looking at priority in terms of whether a house is suitable to the needs of people, how long people are living in the area and how long it has been since their application was made. We may well go for expressions of interest when we are assessing the demand in a particular area. As soon as we have concrete schemes, they will be advertised. As soon as we have data on what will be delivered and what the targets are, we will send them to the committee.