Three Deputies' questions have been carried forward from yesterday.

There is a commitment in the programme for Government to provide extra funding for the retrofitting and insulation of Dublin City Council houses and apartments. It has been made known to me that no funding has been provided for a long time to Dublin City Council. This lack of funding has resulted in a complete standstill and suspension of the council's retrofitting programme. If we are serious about the environment, it is essential that the Ministers for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputies Eamon Ryan and Darragh O'Brien, and their Departments engage with Dublin City Council in order to deliver as a matter of urgency the funding which was promised to it but which has not been delivered.

I cannot really account in the House for the actions of Dublin City Council.

It is the Department.

It is a local authority, and I think my own party is in opposition on that particular council. Councils receive funding from lots of different mechanisms. They get direct grants from the Government. They also have money from the property tax, commercial rates and other charges. Ultimately, it is for them to decide how best to deploy their budgets, which amount to more than €1 billion. If there is any way we can give assistance, we will try to do so, but the Deputy must bear in mind that these are local authorities and they make decisions on how to spend their money and they have their own revenue too.

The problem is that the councils did not get funding from the Department.

I call Deputy Gould.

That is the problem. It is not funding that Dublin City Council has from property tax or anything else.

I will check that out.

Deputy Ellis has made his point. I thank him. I call Deputy Gould.