Mr. John Coleman:

I thank Mr. O'Rourke, and I thank the Senator for her question. There is not much more to say to add to what Mr. O'Rourke said. We are progressing everything in parallel. We have organised ourselves and built a staffing infrastructure internally, comprising of mainly property professionals, to drive on with the project management and the development management of the schemes. The active sites are at various stages of advancement, ranging from projects where we have design teams appointed to bring forward planning applications, all the way through to where we are about to get ready to go on site on a number of schemes and we are putting out for procurement to contractors. What all the projects have in common is that they are directed towards direct delivery by the LDA engaging building contractors to build them as social and affordable homes.

With regard to the pipeline sites, the outline there is a slightly longer term but they will continually feed the pipeline. The strategic areas are longer term again, which would have infrastructural channel challenges, but they go to the core of the agency as a land assembly body to bring forward coherent large-scale lands that can be developed over the longer term. We have a good balance between short, medium and longer term pipelines. Project Tosaigh is very important because it accelerates and expands our delivery, and it targets sites that are ready to go but are not being brought forward quickly enough for development. Our ambition there is to bring those sites forward in a way that delivers exclusively affordable housing on them. I hope this addresses the Senator's question.