Ms Dearbhla Lawson:

The five regional towns are Drogheda, Dundalk, Athlone, Letterkenny and Sligo. There are also the five cities. That was following the national planning framework to try and concentrate and look at compact urban development. We started that because the job we had was to look at what public land might have potential for affordable housing development into the future. Much of these lands might be underutilised or might have potential. It is a big job. We published a register of public lands that identifies all the public lands in towns.