Ms Caroline Timmons:

I will not pre-empt what the recommendations of the CREL working group might be, but the points Deputy Ó Broin makes have definitely come up. We are looking at them. I accept that we have to look at whether the eligibility criteria need to be revised upwards, but we also need to look at making sure that people would not be excluded at the lower end of the scale, where they are above the social housing thresholds. It is a complex one to get right, but it is very much something that the working group is looking at currently.

Deputy Ó Broin is correct that the construction cost increases have made it quite difficult to move forward with cost rental, but we are very conscious of that and if there are solutions that can be brought to bear, we will do that.