Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

For next week we will ask the secretariat to prepare a programme. The big issue in respect of housing - no one has mentioned it yet even though we mention it every day in this House - is the issue of homelessness. Do we keep that funding for homelessness? There is €109 million support for homelessness in 2019. We cannot do everything on the one day if we want to deal with the construction and all that sort of stuff. I will list that as an issue in case someone asks why we did not talk about homelessness. I will ask the secretariat to draft a structured way of dealing with the housing issue. It will not all happen on that day. We will have to decide which topics we are dealing with. I think we will start with house starts and house building.

As everyone knows, the Comptroller and Auditor General issued his report last Friday. He has chapters on approximately half the Departments and organisations like the Revenue Commissioners. I make these as suggestions. We have ongoing things in our work programme. The issues relating to the Revenue Commissioners need to be examined fairly soon. There is a chapter on tobacco smuggling, high-wealth individuals' tax liabilities, corporation tax losses, which we dealt with, and PRSI contributions for the self-employed. There is quite a bit there for the Revenue Commissioners and we can start with them fairly early on in our work programme.