Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
9:00 am
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
To quickly return to the numbers again, there is €5.3 billion for Rebuilding Ireland in the capital plan to deliver what is needed. I have a commitment from the Minister for Finance that there will be an increase in this from 2019. That will be announced in the budget. We should not rely on the numbers from 2008 because that was before a massive recession, caused because we had unsustainable public finances that were not being managed appropriately and we had a property bubble.
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