Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome everybody. I have a few different matters I want to get to today. I will draw the officials' attention back to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and Vote 34 in the area of the reallocation of voted funds from 2021. As set out in that report, there was €314 million in 2021 that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not approve for reallocation but the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage moved ahead anyway. It is outlined in the report that the normal way to transfer the funding is to use the Supplementary Estimate process. Why was that not used?