Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is not a 100% scheme. Mr. Ó Coigligh spoke about "the vast majority". I know this is a political situation and there are people involved in devising the scheme. Mr. Ó Coigligh said the vast majority of those who need help will get the financial assistance they need, except for some of them. The test for this scheme has always been that everybody who was impacted would have a rebuild or would have their house put back to the original situation.

I need to ask another question. Why is the Department using the 2008 standards? What is the evidence behind that? What is the science behind the 2008 standards? People have improved their homes or done different things to them since. We now have new information and new regulations. I ask Mr. Ó Coigligh to just tell me why, and to give me a rationale for the 2008 regulations.