Mr. John McCarthy:

----- the volume of vacant housing that existed in Ireland and that we would end up having to knock housing. Everybody knows that the funding that was available right across Government was absolutely shredded in the years immediately following the crash. The Deputy is asking if the Department has in some way disadvantaged Galway. What I am saying is that the issue that arose in relation to the funding of housing programmes affected all local authorities across the board and there was nothing specifically that we did to disadvantage Galway.