Joe Flaherty (Fianna Fail)

There is a sense of déjà vu for me because I was on the last housing committee for five years. Then I was sick for the bulk of this year, so I thought coming back the housing crisis would be sorted but unfortunately it is not. My apologies that I was not here for the committee's June meeting.

Having spent five years on the committee I am always exasperated that I do not get a sense that there is a housing crisis from the Department officials and other agencies when they come in. I do not mean to put the blame specifically on the witnesses but does the Department of housing measure performance metrically within the Department to see where it is at with whether it is going to meet this year's targets, and with the measures it will take to ensure those are met?