Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We have plenty of time anyway, do we not? We have until 6 o'clock. My first question is to Michael McGarvey of Donegal County Council. As a TD for Donegal I have worked with Michael for years. I want to clarify a comment that was made earlier. I am getting messages and people are very angry. I do not think it is truly representative of Mr. McGarvey's view so I am going to put it again. There were 800 people at a public meeting in Burt earlier this year. At the subsequent meeting there were almost 1,400 people. There were about 500 or 600 at a meeting in Mayo. I thank the Department of housing officials for not repeating in their opening statement that this is a 100% scheme. I thank them for listening to us last week and not doing that again. Would Mr. McGarvey agree most people in Donegal who we are dealing with day to day are telling us they cannot afford to access this scheme because it will cost tens of thousands of euro and that is the real reason we do not have a big number applying right now? Does Mr. McGarvey agree with that statement?