Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate)
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank the Minister and his staff for the briefing notes and explanation. I have a lot of questions about where the money is going and I might come back to some of those in the second round. The first thing I want to look at is where the money has come from. On the Revised Estimates sheet that we have been given, of the €586 million in additional money, €432 million is coming from what are called “savings on subheads”. I presume “savings on subheads” means money that was allocated to subheads in the revenue estimate that is not going to be spent on the relevant subheads and, therefore, is being redistributed. That would mean they are underspends. I am interested to know exactly which subhead that €432.9 million is coming from because it is not at all clear from the sheet in front of us. Where that money is being underspent, does that mean certain things that were to be delivered with that money now will not be? That is the first question, and I will have a few supplementaries on that issue as we proceed.
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