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

I need to go back because I want to let my colleague in and I have to go into Taoiseach's questions. I want to go back to the front-loading of the grant applications. The homeowners in Mayo were asking for a 20% grant allocation to rebuild their homes, which must be available up front. Some 50% of the accommodation rental costs and full storage costs were to be paid up front to the homeowners. In spite of Mr. Wickham's suggestion that they were happy with their professional fees being considered, the ask of the homeowners in Mayo was for 20% up front to enable people to access this scheme who were not in a position to access the finance or did not have the finance themselves. We cannot have a situation where people cannot afford to get onto a €2.2 billion scheme.