Mr. Simon Shevlin:

We were not in the first group for affordable housing because County Mayo was assessed as not having an income constraint of over 5%. We got KPMG to carry out an analysis of the Westport market for us. Its analysis proved that there was an affordability constraint of over 5% and we made our submission to the Department based on that. The first application is for 13 units in Westport. The second application for Westport will comprise at least 16 more affordable housing units in a site in Westport.

Regarding Castlebar and Ballina, we have asked KPMG to carry out the same assessment that was done for Westport. We hope to have the report in March. If it proves that there is an affordability constraint, we will start to put together an application for both Castlebar and Ballina.