Mr. Conor O'Donnell:

Yes. I bought that house when I retired six years ago. I thought I would love a little two-bedroom cottage with roses around it. You do not get that in Ireland anymore, so I bought what I thought was a beautiful house. It was a beautiful house when I bought it, but it deteriorated within months of me moving in. The house is 3,000 sq. ft. I am old school and do not do metric. However, if I wanted to shrink the size of my house and not do an upstairs, I would not get the same square footage, which would mean I would not get the same grant. I would be in deficit because I would get a grant that was proportional to my square footage. Everyone is saying I am hard hit because I have a big house, but I still have to fork out. This issue is hitting people with small houses, too. They are unfairly disadvantaged by the square footage factor and the SCSI rates.