Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Exactly, but the Estimates have been relatively accurate so there is no reason to expect otherwise. Between the two years, that is almost €500 million in underspend under subhead A3, local authority housing, at a time of unprecedented numbers of homeless people living in emergency accommodation and record numbers of children growing up without a home. Why is here such a high level of underspend year after year on local authority housing and building social homes? What is the Minister doing about it? How come, given this came up last year and we asked what the Minister would do about it, we are in the same situation this year? There was a €237 million underspend last year and now we are looking at a €220 million underspend in local authority social housing provision. How come we are in the same situation 12 months later?