Ms Niamh Larkin:

We have a value for money unit in the audit service and, in the past, we would pick selected topics that we would look at as part of that. We have looked in the area of housing in recent years and the most recent report we did was a vacant and voids value for money report. We would collate the information across 31 local authorities and allow that to be benchmarked in terms of averages in certain areas. We have looked at housing maintenance before. All of those value for money reports are published on our website and all of them go to the chairs of all of the audit committees, as well as the local authorities, so those are very widely available. We do follow-ups from those value for money reports in order to see, if we have made recommendations, that they are being followed through afterwards.