Mr. Conor O'Connell:

To begin, they are looking at their homes and the sizes of their homes. I knew the old scheme would never cover the cost. I believed at one stage that the new scheme would, but it does not. Storage alone would cost €1,040 per month to empty my house, which is substantial. I would need to rely on a company coming from almost one and a half hour's drive away to Binghamstown, County Mayo, to take my stuff. I have no idea how long it would be in storage and so how much that would cost. Accommodation is another thing. We have a family in Westport, County Mayo, commuting to Connemara every day because there is no accommodation at the moment. It is very hard to find and is very expensive. The other thing is the build costs. The build costs when we started looking at this three and four years ago were much different. We believed, when the new scheme came in, it would solve our problems but all it did was make the concrete producers and builders as well as landlords and storage facilities put their prices up.