Mr. Anthony Flynn:

Thanks. Deputy Gould's points are well made. On what we have been doing under active land management, since 2017 we have completed 54 CPOs and brought back I think 107 properties through derelict sites measures. We spent a lot of money on that but they are kind of one-offs. The Deputy is right in what he is saying. It is not creating the kind of impact we would like to get with a collective response. What we have been doing over the past nine months is carrying out a real analysis with all stakeholders that are involved, including private sector, public sector, planners, property owners and all the rest. Moving forward, we are saying in our pilot we are going to do this on a street-by-street basis and follow through with other public realm improvements to facilitate a catalyst to ensure these streets are re-activated. The two streets are Middle Abbey Street and North Frederick Street. The Deputy asked have we the resources. We have been recently approved by the Department, and kindly so, to create a project management unit. This unit will be responsible for carrying out these programmes we have planned to reinvigorate vacancy and dereliction in the city core. We believe we will be able to come back here in two years and show real progress in what we are doing. What has happened before is kind of one-off stuff, so we have to prioritise and focus. We are doing that and we are focused on a core red line in the city centre area. What we have been doing heretofore has been right throughout the city and we have been actively engaged in that for a number of years, but as Deputy Gould rightly said, the scale of this indicates we have to do things a different way.