Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.
9:30 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
Yes. We are about 50% ahead this year in our capital spend. We are on track on current spend. We are 50% ahead of capital spend from where we were this time last year. There is a significant amount of delivery, as always. However, it is very much back-ended for the year. It is quite a phenomenon that, as much as we look at it, we have not been able to change. There will be a lot of social housing units delivered at the end of the year and that takes up the bulk of our budget.
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