Mine is a question to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. Following on from the very welcome announcement on budget day, following the Cabinet meeting, that there will indeed be a redress scheme funded by the Government for the homeowners in Donegal and Mayo who are affected by mica, will the Minister confirm that the Government will ensure that the redress scheme will be approved by the end of this year? Will he also confirm the details on the roll-out of the scheme and that homes will commence to be fixed early in 2019?

I thank the Deputy for the question. I thank the Ministers of State, Deputies English and McHugh, for the work they have done with Deputy McConalogue in trying to find a resolution for this issue. Last week the Cabinet agreed in principle to having a remediation scheme for concrete block works. We agreed to finalise that scheme this year so it can be commenced next year.