Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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How can that be Ms Stapleton's understanding? I am just giving her absolute, clear feedback from my own county that there is a large number of homeowners in their sixties and seventies. I invited her colleague, Mr. Derek Rafferty. There are facilitators who work at the coalface for the Inishowen Development Partnership. They work for Donegal Local Development Company. Their job is to assist homeowners to make the applications and that is very welcome. There is not enough of them. There needs to be more. They tell us there are homeowners in their fifties, sixties and seventies who cannot access tens of thousands of euro, even though their houses are worse, and they cannot avail of the scheme. That is not prioritisation. It is prioritisation of those who can access tens of thousands of euro. Is that fair?