Leaving aside the charges and countercharges about the success or failure of Building on Reality, may I ask the Taoiseach if new grants for housing repairs and reconstruction are being brought in to help to revive the building industry which is tottering to say the least of it? Is it possible that the Government are beginning to see the light and to realise that helping the building and construction industry is the only way to reduce our unemployment queues, reduce the deficits about which there is so much talk and give some hope to our people? There are many useful projects outstanding and we have the manpower to carry out this work. We are paying a great deal of money and getting no return for it and, in my view, this money could be invested in the building and construction industry. Is it possible that the Government are heading in that direction?

The Deputy will recall that the Fianna Fáil Government abolished these grants. I will be making a statement on this subject later this afternoon. We should move to the next question because there are priority and other questions to be dealt with.

These questions are very important and sensitive.

They are not sensitive to the Chair except in so far as they are taking too long.