Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

A lot of this stock is 40, 50 or 60 years old. We have standards with regard to retrofitting, etc. Should houses be retrofitted to the proper standards or is Ms Behan saying they should not? If they are, it will cost on average €34,000 per house to retrofit those houses, yet the Department is not prepared to fund the local authorities to do that.