Mr. Pat Farrell:

I will be brief because Mr. Kelleher said most of what I wanted to say. I have a good degree of confidence that over the summer period we will start to see concrete – no pun intended – Croí Cónaithe developments. Just talking to people across the development community and aggregating information I have heard, I am of the view that we will see it moving to the point where schemes are activated and we will start to see delivery.

The towns and villages initiative is an interesting one as well. It is a pretty decent grant of up to about €70,000 to activate a vacant or derelict house. What I am hearing from talking to people, not particularly our members but people in that business, is that there is quite a degree of interest in registering on the part of people who want to bring those derelict and vacant units back into use.