Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 January 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

The commission has looked at the issue of targets. Its work in that regard is ongoing. There is some mention of that matter in the newspaper this morning. There is a lot of debate about what the targets should be, and we have based them on the work with the ESRI and the housing demand needs assessment. The figure of 33,000 that gets mentioned all of the time is an average. That increases over time. Depending on the assumptions one applies, one can end up with very different targets, so there has been a lot of discussion about those issues. We will need to look at the targets again with the detailed census report and the work that we get back from bodies such as the Housing Commission.

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