Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

I will tell the Minister of State what I think needs to happen. A new circular needs to be issued. A target timeline needs to be set, reducing over a period of years. There needs to be more flexibility for funding. Some properties will require more than the maximum that can be provided, while others currently require less. There are issues of monitoring and reporting. We should not have to wait for a NOAC report a year and a half afterwards. If the Department set out biyearly monitoring in a circular, that would make the local authorities that want to do better do better, but the Department needs to give a little more too.