Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion

Mr. Michael McCarthy:

It is a prominent debate and I know that with some sites there is an issue in identifying ownership for various reasons. Ultimately, we collect data, present and showcase it. We put it on the website. We are not involved with the policy or reaction around that. I get entirely what the Deputy is saying about the oversight or governance around it but, ultimately, we cannot set policy and we cannot dictate that policy to the Minister. There may be a particular field that the Minister will feel is so important that he or she will delegate it, and we would be more than happy to go through it.