Mr. Bob Jordan:

The only Housing Agency office outside Dublin is our office in the north west, which deals with the defective concrete blocks grant scheme. We have six staff members there who are supported, it has to be said, by the entire agency, including administration and IT support staff. We have an operational budget of €3.2 million for this year. Of this, 85% to 90% will go to framework consultants. We have two panels. One is a panel of chartered engineers who do the assessment sampling, testing and categorisation-----