Members of the Not Our Fault - 100% Redress campaign are yet again outside this building calling on the Government to take action on the issue of defects. As the Taoiseach will know, it was more than two years ago that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, announced the establishment of the working group on Celtic tiger-era building defects. It has been a year since that group's report was published and six months since the Minister told these homeowners, many with very serious fire safety and structural defects, that funding was allocated for this year for emergency fire safety and remediation works and that the legislation would be published this year. Will the Taoiseach tell us and those affected homeowners how much money was allocated for the emergency interim fire safety works? Will he tell us when in 2023 they will be able to apply for it? Does he know when the legislation underpinning the redress scheme will be published?

My understanding is that money has been allocated this year for emergency works where fire safety is an issue. I will have to double-check with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, the amount and how it can be drawn down. Realistically, I expect that it will be next year before we will have legislation on the scheme, but if we can do that sooner, we certainly will. This is an issue the Government is seized of and concerned about. In my constituency, unfortunately, a very large number of people are affected by buildings with apartment defects. I have disclosed my interest as somebody who owns an apartment with a building defect. It is certainly something we are working on and we want to help. People are, through no fault of their own, living in dangerous buildings and then have apartments, duplexes and houses they cannot then sell on. They are therefore stuck, and we want to help.