Maria Bailey (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask Dr. Sirr to be careful. We are dealing with derelict sites and units and it would be unfair to cross over into other schemes such as the help-to-buy scheme in the context of value and inflating or not inflating prices. As we all know, there are many pieces to this jigsaw which must fit together if Rebuilding Ireland is to work. We are dealing with one piece of the jigsaw today. I do not want to get into the issue of massaging figures. The help-to-buy scheme relates only to new builds; therefore, it is not inflating prices and a differential applies, for example, to properties costing €400,000 and €500,000. I do not want to get into that aspect. We are dealing with derelict sites and vacant units.