Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Housing Schemes Expenditure: Think-tank for Action on Social Change

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Dr. Sweeney for his presentation.

Dr. Sweeney made a point about 2012 and 2013. Obviously the big problem around that period was access to funding but at the same time there was a huge demand to deal with the housing issue. There was not a huge amount of choice at that stage. If one had put funding into capital one then would not have had Ministry funding to support people who required housing. We have seen an increase in the amount of current expenditure. Has Dr. Sweeney a figure for the number of households who availed of the scheme in that period?

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