Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

I know the phrase is "housing tsar." I hate that phrase. There is no such thing as a housing tsar. It is effectively someone who goes in and is able to pull people together and say to the ESB it has to move pylons or whatever or to Irish Water and the local authority that they have to do this or that. It is effectively a co-ordination role to try to pull people together and there would be a budget available to try to make that happen, if it were approved.