Mr. John McCarthy:

There are 1,600 under the Housing Agency acquisition programme, we are targeting 3,500 units under the buy-and-renew programme and at this stage the ambition for this year under the repair and leasing scheme is for 800 units. A national extension of that for this year has just been announced. Subject to the completion and evaluation of that scheme, it will probably continue on again into next year. In the ordinary course of events, annually as part of the main programme, there will probably be approximately 1,000 acquisitions.