Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us consider all of the things we have discussed here today. The Vice Chairman made a very good point in his opening remarks that the representatives of the local authorities, in their contributions here, all focused on housing delivery but perhaps not all of them use every tool that is available to them right now. We have got to support them to use all of the tools because they do a lot of work across all of the services they provide but housing is a key priority. Local authorities are the housing authorities in each of the 31 areas. Yes, we will advertise Croí Cónaithe more strongly. We launched it and uptake has been really good without a full national advertising campaign. I was conscious of ensuring that local authorities have the resources to process applications. It is a pretty simple, straightforward application and process, which has been managed by local authorities. Every local authority I have been to has received applications and are processing them.