Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank NOAC for appearing here today. I want to ask a couple of questions about the national local authority performance index indicator report which is very good and full of very useful information particularly in relation to the housing disaster that we are in at the moment. Appendix 2 of the report is about housing delivery numbers. It is very useful because it shows the net additional number of local authority homes provided by each local authority in a year. That is very important for accountability because all sorts of numbers and figures are bandied around at different times of the year by different people. This shows what is actually happening. For example, Dún Laoighre-Rathdown shows that in 2021 there was a net gain of 74 local authority dwellings. Fingal County Council had a net gain of 32 local authority dwellings. South Dublin County Council had a net gain of one local authority dwelling in the middle of an absolute housing disaster that we have. Could Mr. McCarthy clarify where the data for this is obtained? Building on the point that Senator Boyhan was making, could we get, given how critical housing delivery is, a preliminary report this year, before the full report is available? I appreciate that across all these headings there is a lot of work to go through but could we get a preliminary report on some of the key housing data in the next few months? I have a second question after that.