Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will often say on budget day that a certain amount is being allocated to additional capital expenditure and such and such. I would like to know whether the Minister and the Department have that information. When capital expenditure on housing is broken down, it includes, for example, retrofit. It does not all go to the building of houses but instead includes quite a few other things. It involves grants for the adaptation of houses and a whole number of other headings. We do not quite know what it is. Do the Department and the Government know the allocations on budget day but do not include that in the book or do they not know until December when a more detailed breakdown is available? Perhaps our guests are not allowed to tell me that.