Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard
9:30 am
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Spratt said there is a prioritisation process. Housing is deemed one of the three strategic priorities. This project would allow for the provision of more than 7,000 houses. They would accommodate a population of 20,000 in the north Drogheda area, which would be almost a second town, and some of those houses have already been built. Mr. Spratt can imagine the gridlock in Drogheda currently without the addition of those new houses. On foot of what the county manager said about there being no current programmes for funding, is Mr. Spratt saying that is correct, namely, there is no current programme for which an application such as one this could apply?
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