Mr. Paddy Mahon:

I thank the Deputy for his question, which I will pass over to my colleague Ms Healy in a minute. We have reduced the number of weeks within which a house is left vacant. The number of vacancies is still high but we have reduced it by 25% over the past couple of years because we have introduced a number of additional measures. Ms Healy might go through those measures, including the point the Deputy made about having our own crews.