Mr. Dermot Mahon:

It is not a process that we undertake directly in the housing department. It is undertaken as part of the development plan process. We are not directly involved in inputting the data, although we do get the report once it is produced. In terms of our own affordability targets, we have a figure of 1,000 and the HNDA produced a figure of 900. So they were fairly close in terms of what our estimation was based on pipeline, our estimated demand against the data that were produced as part of the HNDA process. I do not think there was any surprise that those numbers were fairly similar.

Regarding the overall need for social housing, it might have underplayed that somewhat in terms of the HNDA figure and what we estimated in terms of the overall demand. We are not going to provide every solution for every need over the next six years. This will extend beyond the 2022-26 period. Supply will be required going forward. It is not that we are going to meet every single need. On the affordability-constrained households, there was a fairly good correlation between what we would have estimated and what the report produced ultimately.