Ms Caroline Timmons:

I will come back on that. I agree with the Senator. Last year, Age Friendly Ireland did some very good work for local authorities on rightsizing, including developing a guide to rightsizing. All of this is available on the Age Friendly Homes website that we and the Department of Health jointly sponsor. The Housing Agency is involved in that as well. Age Friendly Ireland has put together a rightsizing template for local authorities that is particularly to do with social housing and considers many of the issues the Senator talked about. This year, we will try to take that more national overarching view in our national rightsizing policy. The team is working on that at present. It will be developed over the next couple of months. There will be consultation to enable all those views about the right way to promote it to be put into that policy and to try to come forward with some ideas about what people need to enable that.

I am delighted to hear private developers are coming forward and demand-----