Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the delegation for attending. In our village a development of 16 houses was built 15 years ago and we have taken in people who were homeless and taken people out of nursing homes. We have housed people who were in very poor rural housing. It has been a very successful scheme. We were, perhaps, lucky at the time in that 5% of the funding of the scheme came from the community, with 95% of the scheme's funding coming through what is now the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Does that system still work or is that funding still available? We have had people coming to us from other villages looking at our scheme and wondering if they could replicate it in their own villages.