Housing scorecard and waiting lists
Senator Daly criticised Government housing performance, citing waiting lists, emergency accommodation and low delivery. The exchange became a running interruption-heavy debate, with others jeering but no alternative issue being raised yet.
The previous Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, used to talk about a scorecard for Ministers but he got rid of it because the scorecard did not show the results he wanted, which tells us a lot about how the Ministers were performing.
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The Senator would be a good judge of that.
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We should avoid a "Kramer versus Kramer" situation, with Kerry versus Kerry in this instance.
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We hear that Deputy Micheál Martin has a scorecard.
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If Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were like Kramer and Kramer, it all ended in divorce 100 years ago. As regards the scorecard on housing, over 120,000 households are on the waiting lists but only 1,000 units have been provided. There are 3,124 children and 5,250 adults in emergency accommodation awaiting housing, on top of those households on the waiting lists, which shows the size of the issue. There has been a success rate of 0.65% which, even using Senator Coghlan's mathematics, is not a pass.