Thomas Gould (Cork North-Central, Sinn Fein)

To tease that out a bit more, I come from an area in Cork, Garranabraher, which is almost 90 years old. Due to the boom and bust and the finances of the country going from being awash with money to austerity and back again there is no housing maintenance plan. The previous Minister and the new Minister have talked about putting in pre-emptive maintenance and maintenance plans but what they were talking about is a joke. Right across the country we have estates 80 and 90 years old with preventative maintenance plans put in. That means people are living in substandard housing that is cold, damp and not insulated. Professor Norris is saying that funding needs to be ongoing. If that is done on an ongoing basis then we do not get huge mountains of cost, because the work is being done as we go along. Is that not the right way to do it?