Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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Those elements are activation measures. Active land management is more than that. There can be lots of individual activation measures but the idea of NPO 10a was to state that we needed a State entity that would be involved in active land management.

I will raise two very quick matters that probably will not get answers. On pages 102 and 103 and the language around homelessness, we could have a situation where supply increases and homelessness increases. Increasing supply does not, in and of itself, tackle homelessness, if it is not the right kind of supply. It is interesting to note that the housing need and demand assessment, HNDA, language on page 103 is obviously reflective of the reality, but the word "centralised" has been inserted. No longer are we are thinking of the housing needs demand assessment as a tool that does not just have a centralised State-wide element but could have more granular localised elements, rather, it is saying that this is the Department's thing. The Department sets it and everybody else has to live with that. That seems a shame. I know it is reflective of the reality but it seems to be a shame in terms of that language. I ask for a brief comment. Unfortunately, I am out of time.