Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I return to the question of prioritising. Will the Minister of State look at every scheme and release all of them in a big bang or will he recognise that some places can provide houses much faster on the ground? These are places such as Crossbarry where planning applications and so forth are already in place and where development is being held up because of the absence of these schemes. Will he look at every application or just at some of the classes first and release those so he can get houses built and give residents in those unfinished estates the benefit more quickly, especially given the fact that they have been held up for so long? They were part of the pilot and had to wait for the review, which took over a year, and it appears that they have to wait again. They have already been assessed as having a need. In fact, it is a much greater need than originally believed. That is why they did not advance in the pilot scheme.

The Minister of State has €31 million. How is he distributing that across the three classes? Has he made a decision on that and can he clarify how he plans to spend it? This scheme is for the period 2018 to 2021 so we are half way through it. Will the Minister of State release some of that funding before the end of the year to let people get on with it? Time is slipping by.

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