Mr. Declan Meally:

That is the holy grail in respect of where we want to get to. A project that began last year and is due to conclude later this year termed it the midlands project. The idea was to examine housing estates as a group. Some of those housing estates are owned by the local authority and populated by local authority residents, while others have been bought and still others comprise private renters, who may be in fuel poverty. The idea is to get those estates into a group and, as the Deputy suggested, to take a terrace or a street together. It is difficult because there are different forms of ownership but, from our early learnings through working with local authorities in the midlands, we have seen there are opportunities to build on that.

We must encourage work through communities. We have 600 sustainable communities around the country.