Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Brady spoke about having an overall group. That is the thing. This council does W, another council does X, TII does Y, the NTA does Z and the Department of housing and Uisce Éireann do something else. They are linked. It is about an overarching agency, which is essentially the Department. Rather, it is the new area of focus that has been set up under the Department of public expenditure. That is why this committee is here. This committee can be successful. It is new and can have oversight of it. At the same time, something the Chair has been keenly focused on is our need to collect as much information at the outset regarding benchmarks and thoughts like that so we can use them to ask questions. The Chair will probably agree with me that the effectiveness of this committee will not show right now, but in one, two or three years' time when we can push back, point to statements bodies have made and ask what the benchmarks are.