Ms ?ine Stapleton:

We have our own assessment from the wider social housing building programme and over the past three years construction inflation is probably 23%. Our average award under the retrofit programme has gone up of the order of 20%, so we are more or less keeping line in with what we regard as construction inflation.

On the issue of bundling, we agree with the Deputy that there are efficiencies if we can get local authority and private stock looked at when they are co-located. There are challenges around that in terms of the willingness of the private householders to participate, the particular timing of what we might be doing and the funding issues. There is a pilot ongoing that Fingal County Council is leading that looks at this issue of bundling and trying to mix the council's retrofit programme with some private housing stock. We hope to get a report from the council quite shortly on the challenges that have arisen from that and how the authority thinks that might inform a broader approach. It is very challenging, but we can certainly see the merit of trying to do something along those lines. I do not disagree at all.

I might to turn to my colleague, Mr. Halvey, on the question of the models the Deputy mentioned in Cork and the design issues with the balconies. I am not familiar, but I would like to check whether he has come across these.