Mr. Niall Cussen:

We have a piece of work on this that has travelled into the Department of housing in the context of its housing plan. You can look at regional and rural Ireland, and at large swathes of the midlands, the west and so on. I think I mentioned this in the response to Deputy McCormack. There is a huge disconnect between the level of housing being delivered in key towns, some of them quite large, and what the core strategies of their development plans have targeted. That speaks to the heart of whether they can get the land. Is the land affordable? Is the infrastructure there? Are there developer platforms or house builders of scale that have the funding and all of that and the conditions of viability to move on those sites? There have been initiatives under the Housing for All plan, particularly in relation to the sites like the ready to build scheme, croí cónaithe villages and so on. In the context of our research function, we think they have great potential to deliver similar success for small towns and villages, particularly in rural Ireland, like the vacant home refurbishment grant has delivered in the reuse of individual houses. That is a huge issue in the implementation of development plans.