Ms Geraldine Tallon:

As I said, there was emerging experience from other affordable land swap arrangements in the 2004 to 2006 period. The site at Harcourt Terrace, which comprised the Garda station and the film censor's office, had been put forward by the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in 2004. It was seen by Government in 2004 and agreed by it at that stage. In late 2004, the then Taoiseach acknowledged that this was an important site in terms of affordable housing and that the market should be aware of the potential for a second site to come forward in the context of the affordable housing initiative. The Affordable Homes Partnership did an assessment of the site. The first thing in each of these cases was to see what the site itself could accommodate.