Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that there is a cost overrun of between €5,000 and €7,000 per house and there is no provision to cover that. In some local authorities we are looking at an overrun in the order of approximately €700,000. Local authority staff and officials will quickly lose the appetite for a scheme if they have to find money for to cover things like that.