We have only 15 minutes today, one minute for one question.

This morning the NESC published a report calling on the Government to build homes on publicly owned lands. It is extraordinary that a body of its significance still feels it has to remind the Government to take this. The report states, "Publicly owned sites now have a central role in addressing the housing crisis and starting the transition to a new system of active land management and urban development." It is extraordinary that there is not a programme in place to build actively on State-owned lands already. We are five years into a housing crisis. What is the Tánaiste's response to the NESC report and can he confirm what State-owned sites, in particular in Dublin, are ready to go to construction?

I might, if there is a detailed follow-up, ask the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Damien English, to contribute.

We discussed the report in Cabinet this week. Effectively, the report endorses what the Government has been doing, particularly with regard to Ireland 2040 and medium-term planning to make sure we see the next phases of residential development in Ireland happening on the basis of proper and good planning as opposed to being driven by individual developers on the basis of what sites they can access and so on. We have undertaken an audit of all available public land for housing throughout the country. Every local authority has been asked to report comprehensively on it. I remember it clearly during my time in the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. We are now putting pressure on to make sure we maximise the potential of those, whether it is social housing, social housing and private combined, a public private partnership or affordable housing schemes. That is exactly what is happening now. What the Government is doing, I am glad to say, has been endorsed by and large by the NESC report that was published this week.