John Cummins (Waterford, Fine Gael)

The notification is given at the outset before commencement of works. We do not have a completion figure. However, in my experience of dealing with small builders on the ground who have availed of the commercial to residential exemption, combined with such schemes as the repair and leasing scheme, which has been hugely successful in my county, Waterford, when a property is given a notification, it is pretty much ready to go and for builders to get on site. While a development might not have been delivered within the calendar year the notification was given, there would be an expectation that it will be delivered, although it might fall into the first or second quarter of the following year.