Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The committee agreed to deal with the miscategorisation. It was not just me who wanted it to happen. I am more than happy to discuss the reports because there are many interesting things to say about them, but they are not what the invitation to attend the meeting was related to. The Minister has been invited in the first instance to help us to get to the bottom of this matter. If he is right when he says all 875 adults and children have been erroneously miscategorised, he should give us the information to enable us to make a decision on it. The difficulty is two months have passed since the initial decision was made. It is clear that the Department has information on the 875 individuals. Given that we have been asking for this information for two months, I do not understand why the Minister will not share it. If he believes he can convince the committee that miscategorisation has happened, he should do so. I have expressed my views on the matter. I have gone to each of the local authorities that have been affected by it and able to identify 20 households that I think have been miscategorised. All of the information I have on the others involved who comprise the overwhelming majority of the 874 adults and children in question suggests they were not miscategorised. They were homeless at the time when they were removed from the figures. We cannot make progress because the Minister will not share the information with us. I am happy to talk about the other stuff as I am not focused solely on miscategorisation. If the Minister continues to refuse to give the committee the information it has requested, he will prevent us from doing our work in scrutinising his role as Minister. That is disrespectful to the committee. He told us that the reports would contain this information, but now he is telling us that it is not ready. It was ready enough to take homeless families off the homeless lists in March and April. Why is he not sharing the information with us?