Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is great. I think the process is under way. We have asked to be provided with them. On the local authority assessment of affordable housing, the Minister does not need to be told that affordability is a major issue in most local authorities. It is certainly so in the four Dublin local authorities as well as in Galway and Limerick. Is the Minister still awaiting assessments? He has been in this business for long enough to know that he does not need a document telling him about the assessment of affordability. Is this a delaying tactic? What is the reason for the delay? What is the current status of the four Dublin local authorities in regard to reporting on the assessment of affordable accommodation? If the Minister does not have that information, why has it not been provided to him? I have spoken to members of each of the four local authorities and they cannot understand the insistence on the production of this report when the Minister and everyone in his Department knows there is an affordability issue. If that is a process which the Minister wants completed and he wants those boxes ticked, what progress has been made in that regard?