David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Secretary General is the Accounting Officer for the Department. The buck stops with the Department when it allocates funding for a specific purpose and that funding is not drawn down. Under Rebuilding Ireland, the Secretary General will be very quick to claim credit for reaching all the targets. Some of the methods might have been different as we discussed earlier - acquisitions were up and leasing was down. We have far from reached our Traveller accommodation targets; it is in fact 50%. How could ten local authorities not have done anything at all? Does that indicate a structural problem?