Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am just putting my answer in context. It is important that the committee knows that there is additional funding coming into the Department and that the vast bulk of that will be for homeless services. If we look, for argument’s sake, at the reallocation to the capital acquisitions scheme, CAS, we can provide the exact amounts and they are detailed in the capital amounts here. We have reallocated within it. To take the tenantin situscheme as an example, we set a target of 1,500 for this year and we are going to exceed that target this year, so there will be accelerated spend there. With regard to STAR, there is €60 million that we did not provide for. There is also additional spend with regard to CREL, which is real delivery, and the land acquisition fund because that has been expended.

What we are looking at on the capital decrease side is that what is across A3 stays within A3. On local authority housing, we will exceed our output of last year quite substantially and we intend to be very close to exceeding, if not actually exceeding, our social housing output this year as well. This is a reallocation within the housing subhead as opposed to taking anything out of housing. For argument’s sake, we can take affordable housing at subhead A31. On affordable housing direct build, it is very important that we are able to allocate moneys and we are allocating €50 million from there to the land acquisition fund, although the land acquisition fund heretofore did not provide for the purchase of lands for affordable housing. All of it remains within the housing subhead and it is being reallocated within that.

On social housing in particular, we will have a very strong outturn. I do not have the quarter 3 figures verified yet but I take it the Deputy will be asking me about that too, so I wanted to say that. However, quarter 4 will be very significant for delivery. We are about €500 million ahead of spend compared to this time last year.