Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Representatives of the County and City Management Association, CCMA, attended one of our previous meetings. The housing manager for County Louth stated his local authority's experience of the pilot scheme was that the actual cost of turning around units was significantly higher than anticipated. He indicated that it could have been as high as €100,000 rather than the €40,000 or so that had been earmarked for the pilot scheme. Is the Department factoring this into the figure of 1,500? What is the expected average cost per unit?