Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.
9:30 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source
Is Mr. Doyle saying that he cannot put forward a proposal in his capacity as Secretary General? I mean a proposal to help this person not to be homeless because of a 14-month delay in planning and for the other number of people who are homeless - we have 12,500 homeless in addition to all those who are in direct provision and cannot get out of it. We are talking thousands of people and we are going nowhere. Is Mr. Doyle able, in his capacity as Secretary General, to put a proposal to the Minister to divert 40 people into planning and second them for the time being? These staff are not really doing a job that is required at this time in terms of housing. Is that not a proposal that the Secretary General can put forward?
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