Mr. Paddy Mahon:

We have. Where the vacancies arise, we deal very successfully with sanction requests from the Department. We have always been able to deliver the right business case to allow approvals to be put in place. We built up our team carefully and we use contractors as well. We met recently with the Department and we need to look forward towards a planned maintenance approach to our stock. That will probably help to minimise and reduce the level of vacancy because we will have a more proactive asset management approach to our stock. We have about 2,200 houses in Longford, which is a lot for a small county.