I again ask Deputies for their co-operation. Each speaker has up to one minute and then everybody will get in.

Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We know the Tánaiste is more in line with the Tories and Boris Johnson in London than the Executive in the North but for the information of the House, my colleague Deirdre Hargey has already approved a €240 payment - not a loan - to individuals as a targeted support. That legislation is going through the Executive. The Tánaiste is mixing it up with Boris Johnson's plan for Britain.

I raise the mica and pyrite defective blocks scheme. There are serious concerns in Donegal and elsewhere about the timeframes and how long it will take. There are suggestions it could be close to the end of the year. We need urgency from the Government on this. Those concerns are only being added to now due to the upcoming Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland, SCSI, report on the cost of the defective concrete blocks scheme. It is simply unacceptable. The SCSI must be allowed to provide a fully independent and true assessment of the costs of rebuilding homes and replacing foundations.

I thank the Deputy.

The Tánaiste's colleague, the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, gave a commitment that foundations would be included. It appears they have not been.

I thank the Deputy and ask the Tánaiste to respond.

Will the Tánaiste explain to the House why he is asking thousands of homeowners to rebuild their homes to standards that for some will be a quarter of a century old-----

We are over time.

-----given what the Government is demanding and the SCSI standards

I thank the Deputy. I am going to have to come back to him on the SCSI standards as I do not have a note on that at the moment.

As I understand it, the €240 being offered in Northern Ireland has not been paid to anyone yet.

The legislation has gone through.

Yes, but the Deputy is critical of------

The Tánaiste said it was a loan. Will he just accept he was wrong? He said it was a loan.

I accept that. Will the Deputy accept-----

And it is for individuals, not households.

Yes. Will the Deputy accept that Sinn Féin is not giving it to everyone in the North? It is only giving it to-----

It is targeted.

-----a limited number of groups.

Second, would the Deputy accept that it is hypocritical of him to criticise us for not yet paying the energy grant that has been announced, when exactly the same thing is happening in the North? An energy grant of £240, or whatever the amount is, was announced but has not been paid because the legislation has not gone through, yet the Deputy criticises us for the exact same thing. That makes no sense.

Will the Tánaiste acknowledge that he was wrong?

I am moving on to the Labour Party.

There is no response to the mica issue.

The question was on mica.

I was wrong on that point, but the Deputy is a hypocrite.

Both sides are unacceptably using up the time of colleagues.