Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is necessary because one can be shown something, yet two days later forget the information unless one has a simple set of instructions to hand. So as not to offend half of the country I confirm that I am speaking about myself and not about anybody else.

I am not sure if the following observation is fair or unfair. The owner of a middle-sized contracting company came to me and said that the problem at the minute is that the company is still doing pieces of work in homes and applying for the grants for people but the company cannot apply for the same sort of grants that are available to those that can go directly through the one-stop shop or whatever. He spoke about that being a difficulty for contractors. He also spoke of the one-stop shop being a closed shop in the way it operates and said he believed the qualifying criteria and capacities are not particularly reasonable. This all sounded reasonable to me and I look forward to hearing an answer from the delegation.