Mr. Pat Montague:

There are 214, representing just short of 20,000 apartments, but there have been no grants yet. That will be two years up and running on 11 December this year. To be fair, one of the issues that came out of leftfield was the issue, which Mr. Doran alluded to, of public procurement. The way the scheme was originally designed was to be a light-touch application process. It was only on 13 or 14 December last year when a number of grants, including Mr. Doran's, which had provisional approval, went to the Housing Agency board. The Department was due to pay out the money the next day when somebody on the board said to hold on a minute, that the vast bulk of money for remediation purposes was from the public purse and it had to go up on eTenders. There are other models of procurement, which some members will be aware of and which we will talk about with the Housing Agency, but that has now become a millstone around the neck of this scheme.

People with no legal, financial or construction experience are now trying to navigate public works contracts. It has become an absolute nightmare.