Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming before the committee. It is very helpful to have a discussion with them before we meet officials from the Department. There is a major housing crisis but we have so many agencies involved which is difficult to understand. When I began to list them, I gave up. How many approved housing bodies are there? We also have the Housing Agency, the Housing Finance Agency, the Land Development Agency, 34 local authorities and the land aggregation scheme. That is just the beginning of the list. Coming from Galway in particular, where people have been waiting on the list since 2002, it beggars belief. There is plenty of land in public ownership, including Ceannt Station, the docks and Dyke Road.

It is mind-boggling. How many approved housing bodies are there in total?