Aidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)

The Department has said that local authorities and the DRHE are responsible for governance and oversight, yet, as Mr. Kelly mentioned, the Minister was out championing his housing plan. The Department will lay claim to success when things are going well, but when there are issues of governance and oversight, the buck of responsibility seems to be passed off to everyone but the Department. When this was considered a red flag - not in hindsight but at the time - was that not the time to tell the Charities Regulator that there was potentially a problem and ask it to investigate, three years ago?