The university has come on in leaps and bounds over the last decade or two. Sometimes you also have to promote institutions-----

-----and not always be negative. On the airport, there has been ongoing engagement between the Department and Waterford Airport. An updated submission was received as late as 23 April. Some of the matters raised by the Department had been addressed. Some detail remained outstanding. I think that came in on 27 May and further detail was also provided on 2 July. A business case has to be made for the proposals because they will require a significant degree of State aid. Any plan must be supported by robust empirical …

The Deputy and I both know that it is not as simple an issue as just saying, let us allocate a sum of money and it all happens.

That is not the way it works in the real world. It is fair to say-----

-----there has been huge progress in the economy in Waterford, with regard to investment in the infrastructure, the public realm, the north quays, the university and the hospital as well.

First, I accept that the affordable purchase homes scheme at Oscar Traynor Road are subsidised through the local authority shared equity scheme, not the first home shared equity scheme, as I inadvertently said. However, that does then mean that is also subsidised up to potentially €100,000 under that scheme, plus the €30,000 from the help-to-buy scheme, which the Deputy did not reference. It depends on what the market value of any given house is but there is a State subsidy of €130,000. I am sure the Deputy would a…

The only way to deal with affordable housing, in my view, is more supply, and we have to build more houses. I would argue that the schemes, and the multiple schemes we have for affordability, are far superior than anything the Deputy's party has produced so far. In fact, his party would take away those schemes we have provided, and I think that would be very detrimental to affordability and to first-time buyers in particular.

It is not the policy, nor should it be the policy, that responses occur via protests alone. Every child is entitled, in my view, to the fundamentals. There was a court action which effectively meant the HSE had to go back to the drawing board with regard to the assessment of need process. We may have to look at legislation in that respect. It would be interesting to see how the Oireachtas would respond to such legislation. Assessment is very important, and proper intervention should follow. I am on record as saying…

I did not quite pick up the specifics of the points the Deputy was making.

Grants of up to €420,000 are now available for affected homeowners depending on the works required under the scheme. A report on the first six months of the operation of the scheme was recently prepared for the Minister and it concluded that the scheme was operating satisfactorily. Minor suggestions for improvements were made and are in the process of being implemented. I will ask the Minister to engage with the Deputy.

That was-----

I will raise that specific case. Will the Deputy provide the information to me? I will raise it with the Minister for Justice and the Commissioner because the Deputy said that on a series of occasions, 999 was rung and there was no response.

The Deputy said there was no response to the 999 call.

I got the impression there was no response at all in the Deputy's presentation. We can seek a full report from the Minister through the Commissioner in response to this specific case.

I wish it would spend the money allocated in the last allocation.

Substantive funding has been allocated. Lots of preparatory work has to be done in designing various projects. I will check with the Minister as to the exact timeline around the next call. I will tell him Deputy Stanton eagerly awaits it.

Our primary concern is for those working in Becton, Dickinson and Company and their families who are impacted by this decision. All State agencies will work to support the workers affected in the period ahead as they pursue alternative employment. The IDA will have to work on the site and plant to see if we can get an alternative investor in, which has happened in the past to good effect. Some closures resulted in a rejuvenation of a given site, the most famous being Motorola in Cork ten or 15 years ago. It led to …

Some of these issues are when schools are initially started. No school, in my view, should be ten years waiting but it tends to happen if the agreed planning processes are not applied in terms of recognition of a school's identity and so on. We have been through all that. I presume the school has a school building scheme on the way or a design at various stages. I have talked to the Minister as to where it is. The Deputy must know himself.

Where is it now in the pipeline?

I will check it out and I will come back to the Deputy.