Ms Jackie Maguire:

With regard to derelict sites and CPO, we have issued CPOs for 13 of them and we have brought them back in under the social housing programme. The funding is there now to proceed through the CPO process and get funding in place for that. Also, through the new urban regeneration and development fund, URDF, we have had significant funding, as Mr. McGowan mentioned, and that has given us the funding to be able to acquire particular areas that are complete eyesores. We have also proceeded to try to acquire additional sites under that so we can package it up and put it either out to the market or out to ourselves to regenerate a whole area of a town centre. There is funding there, although I am saying it in a roundabout way. That has only been made available in the last couple of years but we are doing everything to make sure we are successful in acquiring that and securing the funding. We would all agree with the Deputy that dereliction a blight.