Mr. T.J. Malone:

I agree with Deputy O'Rourke that there has been a huge amount of work done over the past 12 months in getting to where we are, and getting back on track. If we take this year, we are running approximately six months behind where we would like to have been. Our whole purpose has been about trying to make sure we get back on track and that we can recover that ground and get back into a seven year plan that we are contracted to do. That plan will be submitted to the Department in the coming week, with the timelines on that as well.

If we look at next year's plan, the 2022 plan, that would have seen us delivering somewhere in the region of 90,000 homes for that year. That was the original plan laid out for next year. Next year will see us pretty much back on track on that. We will deliver close to 7,000 premises a month, which gets in about 84,000 homes for next year. We will strive to surpass that, if possible, but that is what we are looking at. That gets us back into the run rate we had originally envisaged, and all the work we are doing at the moment gets us to a point where we start recovering from there. Next year gets us back on to the run rate. From the end of 2022 to 2023 onwards, we then start to eat into that gap and pull it back into the seven year plan. As Mr. Hendrick mentioned earlier, much of the work has been done. We have engaged with Eir on the Eir "make ready" part of it, we have engaged with suppliers to make sure there is no shortage of materials in the market and we are talking with our contractors on a continuous basis, not alone just to pull back the seven year plan, but we are obviously looking to see where we can accelerate from that point and bring this plan in sooner than the seven years. We are extremely confident on the seven years and working to see exactly how much we can knock off that plan and bring in some of those 2026 and 2025 numbers as well.