Mr. Pat Montague:

If I can just come back to what Deputy Gould was saying on funding, to be frank, the issue is not funding, because last week's announcement put just short of €300 million in place for defects remediation next year. We were looking for in the region of €250 million. To be clear, that is also for Donegal and the defective concrete blocks. The schemes are demand led. More than €100 million was put aside for 2025 but we are not able to draw it down. The issue is not about the allocation of funding. Rather, the application process and the administration of the schemes are so bureaucratic, difficult and time consuming that it takes more than 12 months to get from an application – this is with a fair wind behind you – to a grant. It is way too slow.