Mr. John McCarthy:

Of course, that is the ultimate concern but I am at the intermediate step because what happens to the families depends on what we do with the money. If we took the money being provided to HAP and RAS and transferred it to capital programmes involving building or buying, we would only manage to support a fraction of the more than 18,000 people supported through RAS and HAP. If we took the associated funding for those two programmes in 2018, which between them would have come to €420 million, and applied it to capital programmes, we would not even support 1,000 households.