Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Murphy for clarifying that.

I have been reading quite a bit about the question of the downsizing option. I have received a lot of emails from many residents throughout the area. Say you have a house that is 1,800 sq. ft and under the scheme you want to come back and build something that measures 1,600 sq. ft. Those are just figures off the top of my head. The idea is that the redress should be for the 1,800 sq. ft, that is, the original size, but that the smaller home can then be built back and that the offset, the cost, to build back the 1,600 sq. ft one from the allowance received from having a home of 1,800 sq. m-----