Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Bob Jordan:

The scheme is coming up to its tenth anniversary in February of next year. Approximately 3,300 applications have been received, of which 2,800 have been approved, and 2,700 homes have been remediated at a cost of approximately €119 million to the Exchequer. However, there is no doubt that the number of applications is rapidly dwindling. This year, we got-----