Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for being here today. It is important that we can ask questions and go through the Estimates. Sometimes when we are in the Dáil Chamber, it can be adversarial. When we are here in committee, we at least have time. Normally, I might get a two-or-three-minute slot in the Dáil Chamber and I am trying to fit issues in whereas at least here now we have ten minutes.

We would like to see more of the Minister. The more work we can do together in relation to housing, the better. We have some good solutions right across the board in the Opposition and we would look for the Minister to give us a fair hearing. We believe working together we have to sort out this emergency.

What I would ask is that the Minister give a commitment today - assuming Deputy Darragh O'Brien will be the Minister after the change in Taoiseach and, if not, his successor - to come in in January to go through the quarter 4 figures because the Minister is saying here that there will be a lot delivered in quarter 4 and I would like to discuss that with him when we have the whole year figures in the new year. Would the Minister give that commitment?