James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, during that year there were significant challenges in the context of the pandemic. Being honest, I do not believe any of us should dismiss that. There was a lot of frustration around restrictions impacting building sites. While hindsight is 20:20 vision, in getting a sense during that year of when the Department was going to be able to identify the under supply and the underspend, at what point in 2021 did the conversation happen within the Department where it was brought to the Minister's attention that this is going to occur?