James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is good to know. If there is a delay in the local authority following through on that, the notice to quit has been served maybe six weeks, or whatever the time is, and the local authority is taking three months to close the deal, that can cause obvious difficulties for people. I have seen that happen as well.

While we are on it, I also have a lot of situations where people say they have a property, they want to get rid of it, they are renting it out or whatever, there may not necessarily be a tenant in situas it may be vacant at times, and they want to sell it to the local authority. This comes up a lot. I also have got mixed messages for those scenarios. Do they have to advertise on the market first, bring it to market or can they do a deal with the local authority?There was a conversation a few minutes ago about artificially inflating values. Going directly to the local authority would be preferable, from the State purse point of view and for everybody, because if it goes on the market, the price could be driven up and the taxpayer would not be getting the same value. What is the position around that?