Mr. Barry Lynch:

There is a tender competition ongoing at the minute to procure that and roll it out through the sector. Over the course of the next year, local authorities will be getting into the middle of detailed stock condition surveys and cyclical maintenance planning. Up to now, it has all been reactive.

One of the things that has influenced our approach, in terms of length of time, is that we take the opportunity to do all possible works when a unit becomes vacant. We do not tend, as a sector, to work with peoplein situ. Once a house becomes vacant, we bring it up to the full energy retrofit standards and everything else. One could cut down, do the bare essentials and get them out more quickly, but ongoing maintenance costs are incurred fairly quickly if one does not do these works. Basically, once they are done up to the proper standard, they do not need to be touched for a number of years. It is a balance.