Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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I do not want to ask people to repeat answers to the questions asked earlier if they have already got to them, but there are those issues I had raised in the first round, particularly for the Housing Alliance in terms of CALF as an equity share rather than a grant, and whether it has thoughts around that, and also on the payment and availability scheme review.

I will throw in two other questions on top of that. Obviously, we have had a lot of discussion around turnkeys and I know some of that discussion was in my absence. I am not arguing against turnkeys and I think they are going to be essential. My concern is that the ratio of turnkeys to own-developments, both on the local government side and the approved housing bodies side, is too skewed. How confident is the Housing Alliance that we might start to see over the next number of years a rebalancing so that while turnkeys are still going to be part of both CREL and CALF, there will not be that heavy reliance on them, given about 50% of real social housing last year was turnkeys and the same the year before, and less than half of that was direct delivery? If they have thoughts on where turnkeys are going, I would be interested in that as well.