Ms Caroline Curley:

Council houses coming through. We had a difficulty with regard to funding. There is a voids programme that is part-funded by the Department. Last year, the funding was more generous, at €11,000 per unit. A number of units had funding of €50,000. This year, they are all at €11,000 and the council was given 99 units to do. The reality for us is that even a straightforward unit can cost up to about €25,000. In some regards, that is because of the lack of a planned maintenance programme. If a house has been occupied for 20 or 30 years when we get it back, it needs work to be done on windows, doors, electrics and other parts. The money in our budgets is not-----