Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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That is on the repayment piece. Most of our tenures are separate and are longer than that anyway at between 50 and 70 years. It is something the affordable housing team is reviewing and is working with the Housing Agency on. I think Deputy Ó Broin raised that with me a couple of weeks ago during oral questions. That is something that is being looked at to see if there is the ability to do it. It is a large State investment. When we are talking about Supplementary Estimates and Estimates, we are talking about spending, and it is Exchequer money. In many of these Vote areas like cost rental, it is also an investment by the State. It is important we do that. There is also an income stream. We are looking at that, and it is being looked at by the affordable housing team.

We have a social welfare Bill vote in the Dáil now.