Mr. Declan Meally:

On the Deputy’s point on the local authorities and the skills and opportunity within them, maybe it is something the local authorities can look at. By the time they would be involved and trained up, however, perhaps a number of years would be lost.

The local authority budget comes from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and is not something that is funded through us. Going back to the example the Deputy gave where we are doing private homes alongside local authority homes with combined budgets, that is definitely a solution and a way to go forward. It is a challenge. I understand the numbers of homes the Deputy is saying we have to address, which is a national challenge. However, there are opportunities for us to grow on that, and that is what we have seen and certainly encouraged. Even with the grants that were launched recently, there is a large number of people who want to get involved. Word of mouth has spread that this is a very good opportunity to go for.