Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is quite right. While we will publish the letter, the committee is dissatisfied with the response. We will come back to the matter because we will be discussing housing after the Christmas break. We will see what mechanism can be used in having some people who are on the front line dealing with this issue because they deal with the housing assistance payment, HAP, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and several issues involving taxpayers' money, never mind the building programme and approving applications for approved housing bodies. It is a slap in the face to the people that the chief executives of the local authorities would collectively decide not to appear before an Oireachtas committee that is discussing housing. We will come back to that.