Ms Laura Behan:

When Mr. Taaffe was talking about 10,000 homes, I believe he was talking about those that are currently in the pipeline and being funded. We anticipate that a good deal more homes being provided by local authorities and by the LDA for sale through the local authorities will come on stream over the next five years and will come through our approval processes in that time. That is certainly not the limit of our ambition. It is what we can currently see. I assure the Deputy that schemes are developed and come to the Department for approval every week. That pipeline is consistently being added to. We have funding in place to deliver a much higher proportion of that. I also contend that we are ably meeting the affordable housing needs of a large number of vacant property refurbishment grant and first home scheme applicants via those schemes. They are available at scale and will be further scaled up into the future. The local authority affordable purchase scheme is not the sole support available to purchasers.