Ms Caroline Timmons:

The point the Deputy is making is actually quite fair. This has come up a number of times, and we have dealt with it over the past year. As he is aware, Mayo County Council led the way by pointing out that Westport had an affordability challenge, and it wanted to see if it could access the affordable housing fund. I am very pleased to say that we have approved that scheme in Westport, but it brought forward this idea around the other counties which want to access the fund, and how we deal with that. There are localised affordability challenges which did not, maybe, come out through the analysis and demand assessment that were carried out previously. Local authorities are very well placed-----