Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
1:30 pm
Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source
The size of the budget for this year is €2 million, which was announced last November when we announced we were bringing in the scheme. One of the difficulties we have with the home relocation scheme is trying to identify exactly the quantity we are dealing with. At this stage, having talked to the local authorities and gotten back as much information as we can on the potential relocation units we might have, we could be talking about a €90 million budget in total. We have a €2 million budget to get the scheme up and running and we will look for further funding in 2018 and 2019 to continue with the relocation scheme.
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