Mr. Graham Doyle:

At one of our previous sessions with the Committee of Public Accounts, there was a specific report on pyrite and mica that we dealt with and at the time, we brought subject experts. We can see the level of damage and some images were shown at the time indicating how it is very significant. I can absolutely understand the concerns of people who have been affected by this.

The scheme amounts to the State stepping up to attempt to put those owners, in a substantial way, back into the position they would have been in if these defects had not occurred in the materials. It is a significant scheme, with significant resources being applied to it. I know there is dissatisfaction in some cases, as the Deputy has described, in that it is a 90% scheme. There are some reasons for applying that 10% requirement.

The scheme for homes affected by mica is new and there already significant numbers of applications for that. We are endeavouring to deal with those. There has not been-----