Mr. Colm Ward:

The social housing list in south Dublin is approximately 6,600 households. The majority of those are single person households. The net need, once people who have applied to other local authorities as their local authority of preference, have been factored out, is just over 5,000 households. The average time for people to be accommodated is approximately seven years when all the priorities people get, including medical priority, to accelerate their time to be accommodated, are taken into account. We do not have the statistics to hand regarding how many do not qualify based on the income limits but cost rental will come into play for those households once we start delivering. We are seeing delivery in south Dublin already. We projected 306 cost-rental units in our delivery action plan but that is exclusive of the approved housing bodies delivery.

We anticipate in the region of 500 units of cost-rental for our housing bodies, particularly with the changes in the cost-rental equity loan, CREL, scheme that have been mentioned recently.

Regarding the momentum of people presenting as homeless, 600 new households have engaged with our homeless services this year to either seek prevention advice or to say that they potentially may become homeless. That has not translated. We have had a net increase, I think, of about 40 households from the start of the year to now when one takes into account the households that have come on and others that have been accommodated or provided with HAP support. Out of those 600 households, I think 170 or so presented with a notice to quit from a private rented situation. That will give the committee an indication of the potential of that situation. We are working through all of the tenant in situapplications we are getting from landlords. We are not seeing that many applications - I think around 30 HAP tenants' landlords have presented to us offering the opportunity to purchase those properties.