Mr. Paddy Mahon:

Despite the fact that the council has been delivering a significant number of houses over the past six or seven years, there was a hope and an expectation that this would stimulate the private housing sector, but, unfortunately, this has not yet happened in Longford. I think the next stage is a State-supported affordable scheme that might lead to something more meaningful where we have the builders in Longford building houses there and not coming to the east coast and building houses here, which is what happens at the moment. I will pass over to my colleague, Mr. Brannigan.