Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Could the Department look at issuing a direction to local authorities that they must consider buying in former schemes? One example of which I am aware - I acknowledge that it might date from a couple of years back - relates to five houses in a local authority scheme that were available for possibly €130,000 and the relevant local authority buying a single house for €250,000.

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