Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of social housing, when we are talking about social housing, we are talking about the rapid delivery of social housing. The players are the Department, the local authorities and approved housing bodies. We do not have time to wheel in people to give us opinions - academics and people we have heard speaking well at meetings.

We can find a way for those people to make a submission to this committee without necessarily having to appear before it. We need to focus on delivery, not on opinion.