Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the points Deputy Murphy made on the Peter McVerry Trust, the housing committee has written to the Department, DRHE and Peter McVerry, asking them to come before that committee to discuss the additional funding which had to be provided. All three bodies replied with similar enough wording outlining that while their investigation was ongoing they were not willing to come before the committee. That committee has remit around service delivery and so on but there was a Cabinet decision to provide additional public funding. When it is appropriate, the Committee of Public Accounts should give attention to that decision. I do not know when it will be reflected in the accounts. We dealt with the Department of housing relatively recently but we should revisit that issue when that happens.