Brian Stanley (Laois, Independent)

No, can we just go back to the AHBs? I am talking about where finance was put up by the State and schemes were built mainly on local authority or church land or donated land that had come from the public at the end of the day. AHBs built them in the late nineties and they are now coming of age. They are in the unencumbered period. I have raised this with the Department a number of times and I am not getting an answer about what happens. What is the situation? I gave a case study to the Department on this. It has been almost two years since I first raised this. What has the Department done to ensure the investment by the State is protected in the future? These homes got public support, whether from the Department or the local authority, in finance. What has the Department done to ensure it does not end up with AHBs, which have huge scope after the unencumbered period, being able to do what they like with them?