Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Pat Montague:
It is nowhere. The reason it is nowhere, to bring us back to one of the first things I said to Deputies Ó Broin and McGrath, relates to the transfer of responsibility from the Department of justice to the Department of housing. I tried to have a conversation with one of the senior officials in the Department of housing two weeks ago about moving this along because it is in the programme for Government. I was told that the official could not discuss it because the Department does not have jurisdiction and they cannot engage until they get jurisdiction and the issue is sorted. Representatives of the PSRA and the Housing Agency are not here today because jurisdiction has not transferred. They simply cannot and will not engage in discussion until that issue is sorted. Going back to basics, that must be sorted and quickly.
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