Again, I will engage with the Minister to engage with the county council on this. I have sympathy with the position that the Deputy is presenting. As part of the Housing For All plan, we have made it very clear that all state agencies must be involved in resolving the housing crisis. I have had similar conversations in my own Department where properties were going to be demolished and I said, "No, they are not going to be demolished." There has to be a mindset change in terms of the crisis. I do not know the full background to this and I do not want to be unfair to the council or anyone else but, generally, we should be making those houses fit for habitation and we should allocate them because development of the kind the Deputy mentioned will take a long time. The idea that we would demolish houses for a carpark is something that, at first glance, I would have a problem with.

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