Ms Caroline Timmons:

No, that is absolutely fine. I will provide more information if the committee is interested in this matter. Of the 77 loans last year, 75% were for replacing old mobiles and 25% were for additional units. Of the 77 loans, three were reported to be for brand new units and the remaining were for second-hand units. I believe the average cost was €33,000, so they did not all cost €40,000. The average cost of installation was higher than expected at €6,911 across all local authorities. That was to be funded by the local authorities separately to the loan amounts. We reviewed all of that and then asked the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to see whether we could extend the scheme to this year. This year, there are 80 caravan loans, amounting to €3.2 million. They have been open to local authorities to apply for with the Traveller community since July and have been allocated according to the number of Travellers seeking mobiles and the availability of finance.