Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage

10:55 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

The core funding for emergency accommodation has gone up a little. There was a big jump in that subhead from 2019 to 2020, and that was very much related to the pandemic. There was a very high level of homelessness - there still is - but it was particularly high at the end of 2019, going into 2021. Between the pandemic and additional funding provided to support homeless services in that year, there was a very large increase in the amount of Exchequer funding provided that year. That came down last year, as the Deputy stated. The Deputy may be about to ask me about 2022. That figure is €194 million, which, if we compare it with 2019 in terms of a more representative year, is a significant additional amount of funding.

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