Mr. Michael McDermott:

No, the local contribution has to come into the county council because the contract will be signed between the council and the contractor. We have to make all the payments to the contractor. Regarding the Murrisk scheme that Mr. Condon mentioned previously, because of its scale, involving 600 houses, we started collecting the local contribution 18 months before we even got to tender. We allowed payments to be made in stages over that 18 months but if we were to allow that now, it will just delay the contract from starting. We would be pushing the start of the contract out further.