Mr. Damien Moloney:

Our Department is trying to drive efficiencies. For example, in the context of Housing for All, we engaged intensively with Irish Water, the housing delivery co-ordination office, HDCO, and local authorities in regard to where water infrastructure is. We now have a map that shows where water availability is and there is water availability for a large number of houses. Whether they are in the places where people want to build houses becomes the next question and our long-term planning in that regard flows from that data and from that sharing of knowledge. The website is available to view. Obviously, we are not in a position to cut across the functions of statutory regulators but we are in a position to work with Irish Water and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, as we do under the umbrella of Housing for All, under which I chair the public service delivery subgroup.