Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The stranded costs are mainly pension and salary-related ICT. It needs to be done because if we did not conclude the deal, we would not have the stranded costs. To get back to the Chair and answer the question, I met a community-led housing group recently - it might be the same group we are talking about - and we offered advice and assistance. We have not had any request on the community -led housing in that space that I have seen. We had a good meeting with the group a number of months ago and offered advice with officials, if it is the same group about which we are talking. They are very committed people.

We have set targets for local authorities and MMC delivery with 1,500 additional social homes. The Chairman might recall that they were the encumbered sites where we took the deck last year from the local authorities on the basis that they would deliver those sites through MMC only. We will have three of those sites commencing very shortly. The local authorities and the State, indeed, need to catch up on the private sector on parts of the MMC piece. There are some big developments. Mulhuddart in my area is all MMC delivery. It is a very large scheme of 1,500 affordable and social homes being done through the local authority. A lot of them are doing it, but we have set specific targets on these sites for MMC delivery. We are actually seeing more producers. If we look at the old Braun factory in County Carlow now, there are new homes there. We have the capacity to be able to deliver homes off-site, not just off-site but through MMC, that are far more carbon and climate friendly and more efficient. They are not necessarily cheaper but they are certainly more efficient with regard to time delivery and they are less labour intensive too. There are real opportunities for us there. We have set targets for local authorities in that regard. The Minister of State, Senator Hackett, actually set up a group on the use of cross-laminated timber, CLT, that we have been involved in, in particular. There are real opportunities for us on developments or buildings over 12 m, in particular, that cannot be built right now using CLT, which I believe they should be. That work is under way, however.

I will get the Chairman details on his query regarding the serviced sites in Wicklow to see how many have come in. I have been in Meath where they have had a few through.