Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

Since this House signed off on that legislation and announced that the scheme would close on 16 September, there have been 2,767 applications, which are being processed. Some have been accepted, some rejected, and so on. In deference to the time restrictions I will offer to write to the Deputy with the details. In all honesty, a reasonable window of time has been provided. The fact is that the announcement of the closing date of 16 September effectively produced nearly 3,000 fresh applications a number of years after the publicity surrounding the board had died down.

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