I propose to take Questions Nos. 407 and 412 together.
My Department held a Housing Action Plan meeting with officials from Dublin City Council on 4 March. This was one of the present round of Housing Action Plan meetings held with all Housing Authorities.
The purpose of these meetings is to discuss the direction and content of authorities' proposed Social Housing Investment programmes and particularly to consider the prioritisation of projects and the reconfiguration of the programme as a whole, so that it can be sustained and consolidated in changing economic and budgetary circumstances.
On foot of information furnished in the course of this round of Action Plan meetings I will consider and finalise the 2009 Social Housing Investment Programme allocations and these should be announced in April.
Based on these allocations it will be a matter for housing authorities to finalise their plans for the composition, management and delivery of their programmes, taking into account existing commitments, identifying priority projects and proposals, and providing a time line for delivery and a sustainable funding plan for each project and their programme as a whole.
Further consideration by my Department of any of the projects concerned would be dependent on the priority assigned to it at that stage by Dublin City Council.