Ms AnnMarie Farrelly:

I think it is important to understand that as a local authority we are both a planning and a housing authority. We need to monitor what is happening on the private sites as well as planning on our own public lands, and making sure that we remove all obstacles. Deputy McAuliffe mentioned URDF earlier which is infrastructural funding. We need to make sure that all those delivering infrastructure are delivering on the right sites at the right time to get those activated. We are keeping the lands that are not activating despite having planning permission under review and trying to unlock the problems there. As everyone knows, cost of units is a problem right now, so we are trying to deal with those costs and to come up with new ways of delivery. We are also making sure that State intervention in terms of funds for social units works well, and leverages the activation of sites where private funds might also deliver units.