Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. It is similar to what Mr. Doyle said earlier, but, again, it goes back to my concern about asking the councils to speak to each other, pick up the phone and hand-hold our way through the process. What happens after that. What is the next step? This is where there a concern about auditing, so what is next?

When we look at the Department accounts versus local authority accounts, for example, we can see clearly on the Department side the streams of social housing delivery, for instance, and where it is intended. We cannot see that on the local authority side. There is an inconsistent standard applied between them. For example, I have a concern about social housing delivery. We have been relying on the construction status report, where we might get detailed information, and we have not seen it for the first quarter of this year. It is now the end of June. Where are we on that? These are the mechanisms the Department has put in place in order to co-ordinate delivery from local authorities in the absence of being able to do anything else to effect consistent local authority delivery.