Ms Caroline Timmons:

-----given it makes sense. I think it is available to local authorities and exists but the point about putting it on the website is a good one.

The Senator's point about the marketing of the units is good. It has arisen at previous housing summits where we have looked at the best practice that has been developing on some of the local authorities. Waterford council has been excellent in this space, as has Cork City Council, which has taken an approach that has proved effective whereby it almost acts as a private provider of houses. We have tried at the summits to disseminate some of that best practice to the local authorities and we have continued to do that by working with the local authorities to say they might want to look at doing it in a certain way in order that the purchasers will understand the process, the type of home they are getting and the fact it is not akin to a social home, although, as the Senator noted, some of that is unfair stigmatisation that we need to tackle from a policy perspective.