Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The working group met last week. Did Mr. Ó Cléirigh not point out at that meeting that it has had 40 cases, it could have 400, it needs to ascertain where this is going and whether, as Mr. Ó Cléirigh himself said, there is adequate personnel available within the enforcement offices of local authorities, whether more are needed, whether the working group needs funding from the Department of Finance, with which the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government is discussing other issues such as preparations for incentives for landlords, and so forth? We still do not know. There has only been one case, and that was the Bord Pleanála one. Despite the fact that circulars have been issued and that the Department has asked enforcement officers within local authorities to be vigilant, has there not been another case since?