Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

9:30 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

I better be careful with my use of words. I am not in the business of using jargon. The Deputy may interpret it that way, but it is certainly not intended as such. We are in the business of ensuring we have an integrated interaction with local authorities. I do not wish to have people going to visit local authorities with half of the team and then having to return for another interaction with the other half. That is the purpose of it and if the labelling is offensive, it is not intended-----