Publication by The Ditch of the Attorney General's advice on defective blocks is doing citizens some service. The issue was caused by previous governments moving to self-certification of building materials rather than the State enforcing quality on them. Does the Tánaiste agree with the Attorney General's advice that the terms of the scheme will affect the number of applicants? Does he agree with the Attorney General that, as sure as night follows day, if homeowners are grant-aided to rebuild their homes, more will want to? Has the scheme been about reducing cost rather than assisting homeowners?

The answer is it has not been about reducing cost because the older scheme in 2019 was far inferior and costs have gone up dramatically. As I said earlier, the provision for the costs is about €2.3 billion. I do not understand how anyone could say that amounts to reducing costs. We have increased the maximum grant available to €420,000. On top of that, recipients get the SEAI grant for including retrofit measures as the house is being repaired, refurbished or built anew. The applications are coming in. We need to accelerate work on getting the job done, notwithstanding challenges with construction, getting builders and so on. We have provided for many issues not provided for in the previous scheme, including preliminary costs around engineering. The Deputy knows it.

You still have not-----

And also in terms of rental and so on like that.

It is still affecting homeowners.