Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand what the Deputy is saying. I had not intended to use a specific local authority as an example but the Deputy will be aware that I have had issues with two significant schemes in the Dublin City Council areas because of water ingress. These were expected to be delivered this year but I do not want to take on units that are deficient in any way and so they will fall into next year. Again, the funding for next year is there so one would expect that, in those instances, local authorities' delivery would be in excess of their 2023 targets. The purpose of having multi-annual targets and showing targets to the end of 2025 is that the local authorities know what they have to do over that period.