John McGahon (Fine Gael)
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That would be excellent. The reason I ask is the fact that, on one hand, we have so many qualifying payments, which is great but, on the other, I am concerned about how many of those 46,000 are not availing of any of the payments that would allow them to get the fuel allowance in the first place.

I will move on to Ms O'Connor. She mentioned the fully funded energy upgrade scheme and that leads into the point, which is really interesting, that many people who are renting and on the housing assistance payment, HAP, cannot avail of these schemes because they are not the homeowners. How can these people be enticed to take that up? When she mentioned a long-term lease, how long would that be? Would it be five or ten years? Where does that begin and end?