Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
Chapter 11 - Social Housing
Chapter 12 - Land Aggregation Scheme.
Chapter 13 - Pyrite Remediation Scheme.

11:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is complex, and it is more multifaceted than that. Mr. Doyle has come into the Department, however, as a new Secretary General and has seen the work that has been done and the efforts to re-equip local authorities to build, in addition to the partnership arrangements they have for building. We have reams of briefing materials, which is helpful to a point, but if there is too much, it is almost unhelpful. Therefore, let us talk straight, as it were. What proportion of local authorities does Mr. Doyle think are delivering, or delivered as expected, in 2019 and might be expected, notwithstanding the difficulties of Covid-19, to deliver in 2020?

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