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

Deputy Dillon is the fourth Minister of State since 2018 to stand up in the House and read out almost exactly the same script. It is an open secret, and this will be of value to Deputy Flaherty, that the guidelines have been ready and complete for at least two if not three Ministers of State, but for reasons of political controversy they are not being published. We will not see the guidelines, I wager, this side of the local elections and I am not convinced we will see them this side of a general election either. Like Deputy Flaherty, I believe they should be published. There should be public consultation. When Deputy Flaherty is promoting the great success of the Croí Cónaithe refurbishment grant scheme, he should also inform his constituents that guidelines which should have been published years ago are being sat on in the Department of housing in the Custom House because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are too cowardly to publish them and let the public see what is being proposed. If I am wrong, the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, will be the first Minister of State since 2018 to prove me wrong.

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