Like all candidates, we are knocking on doors across County Donegal, and the Taoiseach should trust me when I say there are huge numbers of families who cannot avail of the defective blocks scheme. They just cannot afford it. They are tens of thousands of euro and, in some cases, over €100,000 short. That is the reality of the scheme. I appeal to the Taoiseach in this election campaign to have a look at the position of his party. Fianna Fáil will speak for itself. We need to have a scheme similar to what Dublin and north Leinster got for pyrite. There people got 100% redress and were able to get on with their lives. I ask the Taoiseach to please trust me when I tell him most families who are eligible for the scheme in Donegal cannot avail of it because they cannot afford to. I am asking him to urgently review this and take an approach that means no matter where people live, if they are victims, they get 100% redress.

I thank the Deputy very much for raising the issue and I accept the sincerity with which he does so. We have obviously seen a number of very considerable enhancements for eligible homeowners, including 100% grants subject to that overall maximum grant of €462,000 per dwelling, which we increased only last month from the original figure of €420,000 and also keeping the grant rates in line with the advice from the SCSI. I am quite sure this is an issue as we run into a general election, as the Deputy rightly said, that all parties will consider how to respond to it with respect to the needs of people in his constituency.