Ms Brigid Carmody:

I also want to touch on maintenance and delays to maintenance. We work with some families who do not have their mobile homes connected to water or heating. One particular family has a mobile home that has not been connected in six to eight months. If a family takes out a €40,000 loan through the caravan loan scheme and it is not connected up to heating, and in this weather the damp will be setting in, the caravans do not last the length of the loan because they start rotting before they are paid off. People are waiting six to eight months to get heating and water into a mobile home. There seem to be very long delays getting plumbers and electricians out to connect caravans and that is a real concern.