Mr. Peter Mullan:

Excuse me, it is 52 weeks, while for offshore, it is 65 weeks.

The Deputy mentioned a project involving 98 houses and the letter that his constituents received in that regard, and he suggested a certain lack of humanity in that regard. In my opening address, I apologised and I continue to apologise. We are a State organisation. People are entitled to a public service from us and they are going to get that. They have been getting it as we have cleared our backlog but we inherited what we had. That is the first point.

The second point is that we are statutorily required to send those letters. There is a little bit of form-filling but, nonetheless, it is required by statute to send those letters out. We have looked at it. If the wording has recently changed, a second letter goes out. As this year progresses, we are hopeful that those letters will not be going out, in any event.

If that has specifically not been provided to the Deputy, we will provide it to him. We provided it to his housing colleagues, who were in with us this morning as part of our stakeholder engagement.