Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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That concludes our consideration. I sincerely thank Mr. Taaffe and Ms Leech for attending. This is the first meeting of the housing committee for the new Government term. We met early after the committee was constituted in the Dáil in order to hit the ground running and be able to have public meetings. A number of organisations were invited in. The CCMA took up that invite straight away and we sincerely thank the witnesses for that. They have given a comprehensive reply to every question asked by every member. That has informed me and all the members of the position at local authority level in terms of delivering the various projects and where we feel changes need to be made to improve that. I made the point in this regard when I asked whether the Department trusts the local authorities to deliver. I trust my local authority to deliver in my county, and I think we need to see more of that. We need to change and adapt the processes, and we will hit our target of 12,000. However, if we keep going as we currently are, it is not going to happen. Those changes need to be made. I know every local authority in the country wants to play its part to ensure we at least hit the social housing targets for 2025 and the years ahead.

That concludes our public session. I propose that we go into private session to consider other business. Is that agreed? Agreed.