It has not been announced.

What does the Taoiseach plan to do to deal with the lack of sufficient funding to deal with the backlog in housing adaptation grants every year? It is not just since Covid. It has been happening for years. There has been carryover year on year. In County Louth alone, 711 outstanding applications have been waiting for years to be dealt with, including elderly people. It is so bad that only some people in category A, the most severe cases, are being dealt with. The Government says it wants elderly people to live independently but to do that, it has to back that up with sufficient funding and deal with the backlog. Every single application, whether it is somebody who cannot access stairs or needs a wet room downstairs, represents a person with mobility and health issues. Having to wait years to get this simple adjustment to allow someone to live independently is quite shameful. What plans does the Government have? I am not talking about the funding the Government currently gives.

I ask the Taoiseach to respond. We are over time.

There are backlogs in every local authority. What plans does the Taoiseach have to increase the funding?

We are over time.

Can the Taoiseach tell me what plans he has to deal with those backlogs in order that people can rightly live independently without having to wait years?

The funding has increased significantly in terms of house adaptation grants.

There are backlogs.

The funding has increased. The key constraint in the future will not be funding but the inflation we are currently experiencing, the constraints on materials and building materials and their high cost because of the war in Ukraine and the inflation that happened as we emerged from Covid-19.

The backlog has been going on for years.

The Deputy must let the Taoiseach respond.

He did not respond, as usual.