Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State is completely missing the point. I am not saying he should give me information before it is agreed. I am saying that last year there was an abridged Estimates Volume with all of this detail and there was then a Revised Estimates Volume which was amended. I want him to publish both of those documents from last year. This year after the budget, an abridged Estimates Volume has been agreed; I would like a copy of that. When the formal process he mentioned is concluded, I would like not the information the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform publishes on its website because it is not as comprehensive as what I have been given previously. I want a commitment that the Department of housing will give us this now.

We cannot keep having this row and wasting the Minister of State's time and his officials' time. I can submit an FOI or make another complaint to the Ceann Comhairle as I had to do recently. The Department has given me this information every other single year. I do not understand why I have to come here and fight for it now. It would be much easier to give us the information from last year, give us the information that has been agreed this year, commit to giving us the final information at the end of the year and not waste the officials' time by forcing me to submit a freedom of information request or another complaint to the Ceann Comhairle. That is not fair to officials who are already working very long hours on a very difficult portfolio.

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