I acknowledge the Taoiseach's ongoing commitment to the A5 and to the link to Letterkenny. A business case will be presented for Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, for the twin towns bypass and the Letterkenny-Lifford link shortly. Whatever needs to be done financially, administratively and politically, will be done in the next while and I look forward to that.

With regard to the defective concrete blocks legislation, when will the scheme be ready? When will it be completed and when will the regulations be complete? I will also emphasise the point publicly again today about the transfer of eligibility, particularly for pensioners who are not in a position to draw down another mortgage or get finance. There should be a clause of transfer of eligibility. The second point is around penalty-free downsizing, which should be voluntary. This is an important element, environmentally and financially. Penalty-free downsizing is an important issue that should be part of the new scheme. It would make the scheme that much stronger.

I thank Deputy McHugh for raising this important issue. We are very keen to have the regulations done in the next couple of weeks. I spoke with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, about this recently and he will engage directly with Deputy McHugh on it. Certainly, by this time next year I want to be in a position where we are seeing hundreds of homes in Donegal being repaired or being demolished and rebuilt. We are keen to get the scheme up and running as soon as possible. I do not want to go into any of the details about that right now but I am aware that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, will speak to the Deputy, and I will speak to him directly as well.