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

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Even though the issue was, as Mr. Doyle said earlier, viability. Logically, then, as the Secretary General looking for an increase of €15,000, Mr. Doyle is telling me that it is correct to impose a tax on such land - we are all saying there is a viability issue - and correct to increase the taxes pertinent to housing development in the middle of the worst housing crisis ever.

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