Mr. John Coleman:

When one looks solely at State lands, it takes time to bring land through processes. It takes time to procure a design team. It takes time for them to create the design because these are really complex sites. It takes time to procure contractors. It is pretty easy to burn through two or three years doing these necessary activities. Of course we need housing now, or as soon as possible.

The key thing is for the LDA to continue to build that scale and continue to have the planes circling overhead and ready to land over the coming years. We want to put as many of those planes up there as possible and that is what we are doing. The graph in my opening statement shows a clear trajectory towards funnelling those projects along in the process. We hope that within a relatively short period of time we will have a very large scale that is immediately deliverable.

The Senator's other point was about how we will get delivery within the next 12 months. I understand that the cost rental equity loan schemes deployed through approved housing bodies, AHBs, may be able to target non-State land that is more deliverable in the nearer term, which could be positioned towards the delivery of cost rental homes. That is a viable option and a positive initiative that the Department and AHBs are deploying at the moment.