Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, absolutely not. I thank the commission for its work. I have thanked it publicly for that. In fairness, the report I received on 8 May took years to prepare. Lots of work the commissioners did in the subgroups requires more than two weeks' consideration. I published the report because part of it was leaked and I thought it much better that people could see the full report. That is the right thing to do. I do not see any disagreement in that regard. I have no issue with that whatsoever.

I outlined the next steps to the Deputy. On the area of affordable housing, the chair of the commission, John O'Connor, again on RTÉ, said that we have brought about a step change in affordable delivery, that we should stick with it, and that the most important thing now is consistency of approach because we are ramping up that affordable housing delivery. The Deputy will see that the report indicates many members of the commission disagreed with each other on various things. That is also a good thing. People have different perspectives. We have a minority and majority report on the referendum where there are also differing views, which all need to be considered in the round as well. I already outlined many of the actions, and I published the commentary and recommendations, which are either done or are in train. I do thank the commission for the work it has done.

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