Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for coming to Mayo. I speak on behalf of the action group there. I was very disappointed, as was the action group, that I was not invited to attend that meeting and was excluded from it. As the Minister of State knows, I and Senator Mac Lochlainn have been working on this matter for several years. However, it is not about us. It is about the home owners.

Did the Minister of State ask the Minister for Finance for a line in the budget to provide for these homes? I fully understand that the Minister of State cannot yet quantify the amount that may be necessary, but while he says the home owners understand the delays, they do not. What they do understand is that if the Minister of State has requested a line in the budget to provide for the homes affected by pyrite, they do not expect him to have a whole figure. That said, they want a gesture of an amount that would show his and the Government's solid intention to address this in an equitable way, as it was on the eastern side of the country.