Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Doherty, Mr. McGrath and their teams to the committee. I have some concise questions. I thank the council officials for coming in to engage with the committee. We appreciate it. I was listening from my office and have been listening since I came in. I will ask this question later but I want to flag it so the officials might reflect on it. Here we are, as people from different groups within the Oireachtas, asking the officials questions about their delivery targets. That makes me scratch my head and wonder whether the officials have a similar engagement with the people in the Custom House, who are the drivers of the Department and the policy. I ask the officials to reflect on that because I would like to hear how that critical analysis, oversight and engagement happens between them and the people in the Custom House.

I have a few questions for Ms Doherty and her team. I will come to Galway City Council if I have time. The officials have set out how many sites and properties are on the council's derelict sites list so they do not need to repeat it. How many of them belong to the council? It is an interesting figure that seems to be coming up all around the place. Councils themselves have responsibility, and are involved in the ownership of some of these properties. Are the officials satisfied all the council's properties that are derelict are on its list of sites? Can the officials advise us of the number of people who are on the council's social housing list? I will begin with those questions.