Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of the persons and organisations on his Department's data analytics group; and the names and organisations it has consulted with to date. [29764/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The recently established Housing Data Analytics Group is made up of key stakeholders with a significant role and interest in housing matters.

The membership of the Group is as follows:

- George Hussey, Niall Cussen, Barry Quinlan, Eoin Corrigan, and John Wickham (Department of Housing, Planning Community and Local Government);

- Diarmuid Reidy (Department of Education and Skills);

- Cillian Doyle (Department of the Taoiseach);

- Deirdre Cullen, Tara Davis and Kieran Culhane (Central Statistics Office);

- Gerard Kennedy (Central Bank);

- Keith Walsh (Revenue);

- John McGrath and Caroline Shally (Solas);

- David Silke and Daragh McCarthy (Housing Agency);

- Rosalind Carroll (Residential Tenancies Board);

- Larry O'Connell (National Economic and Social Council);

- Edgar Morgenroth (Economic and Social Research Institute);

- Daithí Downey (Dublin City Council);

- Jason Frehill (South Dublin County Council); and

- Mairéad Phelan (Local Government Management Agency).

In addition, Michael Flanagan and Laura Weymes (Department of Finance) have been invited to join the Group.

The first meeting of the Housing Data Analytics Group on 3 May 2017 included presentations from my Department, on its various sources of housing activity data and from the CSO, outlining the Census process, including the headline results from Census 2016 dealing with both population and housing. It is intended that presentations will be made by the Dublin Housing Supply Task Force, which prepares quarterly reports on house-building activity across the four local authorities in the region and Construction Information Services, a company which publishes information on public and private sector residential construction projects, at the next meeting of the Housing Data Analytics Group, scheduled for next week.

The summary notes of all meetings of the Housing Data Analytics Group will be published, once agreed, on the Rebuilding Ireland website (www.rebuildingireland.ie).