Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is a significant opportunity. If you are from a Gaeltacht area, the cost of accessing housing in Gaeltacht areas is prohibitive because a lot of people are moving in from outside.

I will turn to a completely separate issue relating to the virement that happened in December 2021. It involved a significant amount of money, an €8 million transfer, or some 48% of the original Estimate, under the broadcasting fund. It was a very significant change of funding from one fund to the other. That is not problematic in and of itself, in some senses, but it was made very close to a Supplementary Estimate being made. Can the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform explain why that money was not included in its Supplementary Estimate, rather than going through this virement process? There is a public financial procedure. I would have expected to see transfers up to this 48% level done through a Supplementary Estimate, particularly when such an Estimate was so close in time to the request made for the virement.