Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome our guests, Mr. Doyle, Mr. O'Connor and Ms Ryan in the room, and all those who are joining us via Teams. I hope to keep my questions short and hope the witnesses can keep their responses short so that we can cover as much territory as possible. I hope to cover Chapters 11, measuring performance for Exchequer spending on social housing; Chapter 12, progress under the land aggregation scheme; and Chapter 13, the pyrite remediation scheme, which both witnesses covered in their opening remarks.

I start with measuring performance. The Comptroller and Auditor General made a very clear assessment in believing that the measurements were not well aligned with the nature and activity of the funding that was being spent. A different way of saying that is that the targets might have been too easily achieved. The value for money and the overall impact of the spending was not taken into account. How has the Department responded to that? What relevant targets does it intend to include in future accounts?