Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Most of my questions have been asked by others but I want to follow up on one point. Would I be right in saying that there has been a proliferation of approved housing bodies since the crash in 2008? It might be sad for the witnesses that this proliferation has coincided with what is probably the worst handling of housing supply in the history of the State. Listening to the witnesses' defence of the questions put, for want of a better word, I get the impression that if local authorities were given sufficient access to funding and were better resourced and staffed, there would be no need for the housing bodies.