Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will come back to that because there is quite a bit of information there and we will not delay this morning's meeting with it.

No. 1673 B is correspondence received from Jackie Maguire, chairperson of the County and City Management Association, CCMA, dated 22 October 2018, which has declined our invitation to attend today’s meeting on a voluntary basis to assist us in our examination of matters relating to housing supply. As I mentioned, due to the fact we are dealing with housing, we had asked the county and city managers to send a representative in view of their very senior positions and key role in delivering social and affordable housing. As we know, the CCMA is not under the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts but I propose we write to it again asking it to assist us in a voluntary capacity and to be helpful to the committee and the Oireachtas in examining the housing issue. The CCMA has knowledge and information that could be helpful to the public. It has a key role and I do not mind whether the individual chief executives come in or whether they come in formally representing the CCMA but we need to see some people who can assist this committee in its work. We will write back in that vein.