Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Would Mr. Rafferty be able to prepare a note for the committee on the information he has to hand in respect of the breakdown of the €2.2 billion, if that is what it is? Just the information that he has available. That would be really useful for the committee.

I want to go to Mr. Rafferty’s statement and the untruth to the effect that the grant covers 100% of the work required to remediate a home up to a maximum grant of €420,000. It is absolutely the case that the maximum grant is €420,000. There are many issues around that which he will have been made aware of, but it is not 100%. I will give one example that was given to me several months ago and I am sure Mr. Rafferty will have similar for the report that the Department did.

This person said the cost of their demolition and rebuilt was €296,000. On the new scheme it is €2,045 per square metre. Their house is 94.54 sq. m and €2,045 by 94.5 sq. m is €193,394.30. That is an absolutely factual example. I have many more like it from Mayo. That identifies the gap of around €100,000. This is for a woman, a single mother, in her 50s. Mr. Rafferty is saying it is 100%. I do not believe we would be here discussing this if the grant amount covered 100%. We would obviously have the science to discuss and we will come to that.

Mr. Rafferty indicated that the Department does not have the data and that the evidence is not there even though I know this is what the homeowner representatives on the different committees will be telling him. What data does he need in order for it to be concrete in his mind that he would never again write a statement that said the grant amounts to cover 100% of the work required so that I can tell the homeowners in Mayo what they need to supply him with?