Mr. Graham Doyle:

With regard to what we tried to do last year, there is a strong tendency that one can see year after year in housing delivery terms where a huge proportion of the delivery happens in the last quarter. That has been a perennial challenge. Last year we had hoped to try to pull that delivery across the totality of the year. The issues that occurred in the early part of the year, which the Deputy has referred to, with construction inflation, issues around risk uncertainty, and tendering and supply chain issues pushed a lot of that time frame, and in fact made it worse than ever in the context of pattern of delivery through the year. A huge proportion of the delivery actually happened within the last quarter. Nearly 6,000 of the units were actually delivered within the last quarter. What we had hoped might happen did not happen, given the major changes that occurred at the start of the year.

Therefore, in that context, what you are doing is trying to work with the local authorities, the AHB sector, and with social housing and asking specifically about trying to get as many of those units delivered as quickly as possible.