Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

But the Minister did have to go to the Taoiseach and the Taoiseach did have to intervene. We know that from documents from the Minister's officials. I am not complaining about that. The more money that goes into public housing, I support, but there does seem to have been a very significant level of resistance within elements of the public service, possibly supported by their Ministers. The Minister present must have some sense of why that is the case, given that he was in the meeting rooms when this would have been discussed.