Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the representatives from the Department of Finance comment on the situation whereby local authorities say they have no money to do it and that they want to acquire houses but they do not have not the clearance from the Department? I presume that the Department of Finance holds the purse strings for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Who or where is the block with the finance? Is it in the Department of Finance or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?