I wish to follow up on the points Senator McGahon made on the Croí Cónaithe scheme. The Government has put significant investment into these schemes and it is important the local authorities provide the resources to deliver these schemes. The local authority chief executives should have monthly meetings with the Minister in his office in the Custom House to ensure the local authorities are resourced to deliver them. The reality is there are extremely wide inconsistencies. A number of counties have not processed repair and lease schemes for the past five years while other counties have had up to 200 schemes. It is important we resource them. It is also important that all political parties, particularly those in opposition, which object to housing developments in their local areas would promote these schemes funded by the taxpayers instead of coming into both the Dáil and Seanad, criticising the Government and not supporting the schemes that are put in place at the taxpayers' expense.

As the sports spokesperson for my party, I congratulate the Irish rugby team on the significant success at the weekend. We look forward to the pre-World Cup games during the summer. We look forward to September and October and hope we will see a World Cup coming back to our country to give significant joy to all of us, young and old. My son will be travelling to the RDS tomorrow to support the Longford under-12 team at half time during the Leinster game. A huge amount of work takes place on the ground in the various clubs throughout the country. I put on record my thanks and thanks from Fine Gael Members for the joy the team has given us. We look forward to supporting them and wish them further success.