Mr. Daniel McLoughlin:

The Deputy will be aware that the overall housing supply framework is set out in the county development plan context and that the Department and the Minister provide an annual allocation of private and public housing for delivery through the county development plan framework, handed down in terms of national demographic projections and the eastern regional authority and so on. That is in play in terms of the numbers, as are land capacity and realistic ambition. In those confines, we have struck a good number. Resilience is built into that regarding potential delays and other opportunities. We have been treading a kind of middle line regarding Part V and there is likely to be more in that. The plan is ambitious and challenging, not just in the context of the last 12 months. It was challenging before that with the step change in delivery and managing that output.

On the land issue, even though I talked up the large site, it is a big issue for us being able to deliver at scale. It has a limitation in the number of contracts one can work onto a particular parcel of land. The social integration model and how many houses one wants to put in a certain area is also a consideration. In overall land bank terms, we are good for this five-year plan period. Beyond that, we have issues with land capacity, which is something we are looking at both as a local authority and with the Department.