There is widespread concern about the low income thresholds now required to be accepted on council housing waiting lists. These thresholds, as the Tánaiste knows, have not moved in several years and are, therefore, lowering in real terms because they are not linked to inflation. The threshold for a single person can be as low as €25,000, rising to a maximum of €35,000. The Government has repeatedly announced a review of the income eligibility criteria. Does the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government accept there are many working people who cannot dream of getting a loan and buying a house but do not qualify under these thresholds? That is particularly true in the band 3 counties. When will we see the review coming to its conclusion and the revised income thresholds announced?

I thank the Deputy. It is fair to recognise that when Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, from Deputy Howlin's party, was in the role, she made sure that an additional allocation was made to the thresholds, recognising that, over time, there would be inflation. People would have been excluded from being able to apply for social housing much sooner had the then Minister of State not done that, so it was quite a prescient move to make.

A review is under way in regard to income thresholds but it is being conducted by the Housing Agency, so it is independent of the Department. When that work is presented to me, I will be able to bring it forward in regard to what is happening with the thresholds.

The work is done. Has the Minister not asked about it?

A series of reforms are being progressed for social housing at the moment, and one of those reforms is around the threshold limits. I am still waiting for that particular piece of information to come from the Housing Agency. When I have it, I can bring that suite of reforms to Cabinet and then to the House. I am trying to do that as quickly as possible but I am depending on an agency that is separate from the Department.

The Minister should look on his desk.

It is not on my desk.