Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can I get support from my colleagues to do that? Perhaps in the new year we can explore that a little bit further and bring officials in from both Departments to do that. I am being reminded by the clerk to the committee that the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is another Department and it would not be answerable to this committee.

Can we still send an invitation to that Department, however? The clerk to the committee has suggested that we write to the Department seeking its views on this project idea and perhaps link in with the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage to see how we can explore it collaboratively.