Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I thank the Minister. I have slightly more than one minute left. I will ask three quick questions. The Minister will not have much time to answer. To make a comment first on the affordable housing subsidy, I totally agree with the earlier comments. It absolutely needs to be reviewed. What officials are telling me is that they are struggling to make affordable housing schemes work based on the subsidy and are defaulting to social housing as a result. While that will be great for social housing targets, it is not going to be good for affordable housing targets. That urgently needs to be looked at.

The apartment defects scheme is obviously coming down the tracks. There is going to be a sizeable amount of funding involved. Where are we with the budgeting for that? How much does the Minister expect to be involved? Will he provide a figure for the likely total of the overall apartment defects scheme?

I do not have time for my remaining question because the Minister will not have time to answer. I ask him to focus on those two points, please.