Mr. Cormac O'Rourke:

I thank the Deputy for his good wishes. First of all, on the timeline, we would hope to be on-site this year on both Shanganagh and St. Kevin's. I have never seen a site of either scale delivered in less than 24 months. Given the current shortage of certain crafts, it may take a little bit longer.

On price, we are in the middle of evaluating tenders so I cannot answer that question at the moment.

On the Deputy's point on competing with the AHBs, I would absolutely agree with him that if we are in competition with the AHBs, as local authorities we will have failed in our mandate. It is not our intention to compete with them and to compete on turnkey properties. We want to activate sites that are currently not going to construction. As the Deputy knows, the construction of housing is much quicker than the construction of apartments. It can be as little as 18 to 20 weeks in the case of modular construction. Our focus with Project Tosaigh is on additional housing and we are currently looking at how to ensure we are not in competition with that.

We will take away the Deputy's idea for a quarterly report. It is a good idea. Let us see how we can service the committee by providing regular updates and see how appropriate that one is.

I would have learned in my time at TII that CPOs are the last resort. In relation to land acquisition, we will be trying to do it by agreement. Let us try to do that both with local authorities and-----