Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission

2:00 am

Mr. Michael O'Flynn:

Some of the Deputy's questions were also directed at me. There will not be changes to planning and delivery without change. I am sorry but the process at the moment is extremely complicated, as David O'Connor has just described. It has become very legalistic. If you are trying to achieve the dramatic emergency measures necessary, you are not going to do it by keeping everything as we have it at this moment in time. We have to accept that the processes are holding us back and that we need emergency measures. That might be new legislation, temporary legislation or directives. I do not know. That is the members' area, not mine. In speaking about banks, we cannot expect-----