Even in the short period since then a number of people have approached me who want to apply for the scheme, but the scheme has now effectively been suspended. The financial background, as the Minister knows, is that one third of the cost of the scheme is paid by the council and two thirds by the Department of the Environment and Local Government. At the moment, North Tipperary County Council has an outstanding liability, we are told, of more than €800,000 to the scheme, with another €400,000 in approved applications due to be funded if they all go ahead. This means that the council may have to pay out more than €1 million for the scheme, which we are told it does not have. This amounts to a crisis in the funding of the scheme, which has resulted in its being suspended. This is unacceptable.