Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman has done that today. The point I will put to the Minister, however, is that I had a top-up scheme when I held her position. I am not saying it was the best; there was a danger. In fairness, the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, as it was called at the time, kept its grants and I just topped them up.

What I basically did was bring the cost of water to a known figure before works started. The big problem when we start a group water scheme at the moment is that we do not know how much it will cost per house. There is no way to say, for instance, a person puts in €2,000-----