Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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But there has been a demand. I am looking at the CCMA’s report. The total number of online registrations to the current scheme is 2,661. I presume that is people just logging online, checking the scheme out and seeing what is available. Regarding the total number of applications received, there is a discrepancy between the CCMA’s figures and a parliamentary question I got previously. The figures we have in front of us from the CCMA state that 1,598 applications were received and 1,488 applications were deemed valid. The total number of properties that have received some level of grant – I am trying to find the exact figure – is a portion of that. Then, of course, there are the figures of the total number of homes that received the full grant. The demand is there. There is a sufficient quantum of applications deemed valid in the system to spend the money. Is there not a concern at the departmental level that, notwithstanding the fact there are many applications, so little of this money has been spent and we are now four years into the original scheme and a year into the new scheme?