Mr. Graham Doyle:

I thank the Chairman and the members of the committee for the engagement on the wider Vote yesterday evening. We will come back on any items that were identified during the course of that engagement.

I am pleased to be here as Accounting Officer to assist the committee in its examination of the three areas covered in chapters 11 to 13, inclusive, of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report, that is: performance measurement for Exchequer funding on social housing; progress under the land aggregation scheme; and the pyrite remediation scheme. We have Mr. John O’Connor, chief executive of the Housing Agency, with us. Given the role the agency plays in the implementation of both the land aggregation scheme and the pyrite remediation scheme we thought it would be very useful to have Mr. O'Connor give a presentation to the committee. I am joined by a number of experts to assist with that on these three particular areas. The Chairman has already introduced them so it might be useful if Mr. O'Connor took us through his presentation now.