Ms M?ire U? Mhaol?in:

On Inis Oírr and the Aran Islands in general, we do not have a huge problem with dereliction, so there will be very little take-up of the Croí Cónaithe grant. On the repair and lease scheme, one of the big issues we came across is that we do not have an awful lot of people on the islands who are on the housing list. They are just not on it; I am not sure if there is anyone on the list on some islands and there may be two on my island. When somebody avails of the repair and lease grant, they then lease the property to the local authority for a long period. The period is too long anyway, which would put off many people, but it has to be available to people who are on the housing list and who are availing of HAP, and we do not have many of those. This is an area where we differ in comparison to mainland areas.