Mr. Bob Jordan:

That is a good question. Obviously, some circumstances have changed for the negative since we acquired these sites, but it is also important to say that since the advent of the LDA we are going to deliver about 1,400 units on LDA sites. That is twice the total that has been delivered so far.

On the rest of the sites, the Comptroller and Auditor General's report has been really useful to the board of the agency. We have met twice in recent months to discuss it. While it obviously requires ministerial approval, we have decided that we will have an operational strategy that essentially looks at disposing of these sites in one way or another over the next 12 months. That involves a cascading process to look once more at the potential for social and affordable housing, and running it through other Departments, the OPW and so on. If there are sites that really have no potential for anybody within the State sector, ultimately, they will have to be disposed of totally. Our commitment is not to hold onto these lands - lands should be used - and to get this strategy approved by the Minister in order that the next time we come back to the committee, something or other will be happening with all of this land.