Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will be the first to apologise if that is the case, but I am not aware of that. All I have seen is the housing crisis get worse and worse, and the waiting lists get longer, and then more deception in terms of the waiting list being halved because they are now on HAP or somewhere else. That is what I have seen. I do not mind waiting and people do not mind waiting. In fact, that is the biggest change from when I was elected first. We would go with people and ask them to bear with us and tell them they would get a house eventually because they were entitled to one. Now, there is absolutely no message like that. They are going from one house to another to another. It is shocking. However, this is about value for money and I do not see any value for money. I see one level of bureaucracy after another.