Joe Cooney (Clare, Fine Gael)

I would like to come back in on a point made regarding the issue I raised. Mr. O'Connor made a good point that funding should be put in place for people to carry out a survey on the costing of doing up old derelict and vacant houses. I fully agree. In fairness to Mr. O'Flynn, he also mentioned looking at the grant. There is a big difference between doing up a four-bedroom, two-storey house in the country and doing up a two-bedroom bungalow. It would be a good thing if the grants could be looked at and also if a survey could be carried out to see exactly what it is costing. The grants could then be varied in a way that might get more people interested in getting these houses back into use. Maybe Mr. O'Flynn could comment on that. There are a lot of houses in towns and villages lying vacant, unfortunately.