Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I would be misleading the Deputy if I said that we did. The disposal of property follows a specific trajectory. We are obliged first to offer it to other Government agencies that may have an interest or requirement, particularly local authorities. It would not be unusual for us to dispose of a premises and for a local authority to take it for use. The second thing which has been an increasing feature over the past two years is we have offered certain premises - some of them very high profile, unfortunately, because they were torched – to the Department of integration to service the needs of international protection applicants. Regarding vacant land that is not built on, the primary focus of the dispersal of that or not is the Land Development Agency. It operates on behalf of the State and expresses an interest in our lands. Some we have transferred to it and some we are arguing to keep for our own future plans. With regard to dispensing with land to local communities, that would be very much on the margins. It might be where we actually own the ground and a soccer pitch might have been there for the past 30 years. We certainly would not be-----