Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Through the Chair, we have provided €2.8 billion to deal with this. That decision has been taken. The money has been bookended and financially provided for in the Government accounts and so on, so that is not rhetoric; it is real. As for the design of the scheme, the guidance documentation is substantial with respect to how the Housing Finance Agency, local authorities and all the various stakeholders engage and make this happen. We want this to happen. However, there have been various representatives all along the way, as the Deputy knows, about amending the scheme, changing it and making it more attractive. That has taken a fair degree of time over the last year.

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