Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O 'Brien, to the House. I thank him for the enormous amount of time and energy he has put into Housing for All. I acknowledge in particular the work of the Oireachtas joint committee, the previous committee of which the Minister was a member. I too was a member of that committee. I thank also the current joint committee operating in this political term. I acknowledge too the enormous commitment of the Department's staff who are really active. Sometimes we forget them in the greater debate of things in politics. I acknowledge the work and the constructive way they have operated within the Department.

I have in front of me two documents. I have Housing for All and I also have a copy of Rebuilding Ireland, which is now a collector's item. Thanks to the Minister's Department I secured a copy last week.