Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Conor Skehan:

Yes. Absolutely. I have nothing to apologise for over that. Whether that means one can associate that - I presume by that the Deputy means Fine Gael, and I presume by Fine Gael he means a party that is to the right rather than to the left of politics, is that the Deputy's implication? - is a separate matter altogether. In terms of my role as chairman of the Housing Agency, I repeat our duty is towards the majority and in particular the majority who may not have as much skin in the game as those people who have imagined access to power and money. We have to be the voice of the voiceless and that is what I am trying to do here today, namely, to make sure that every single one of the people who is on the social housing waiting list is treated equally and that there is no distortion of that. That is the reason I am here and that is the reason I make those statements. I make no apologies for doing that.

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