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)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to go through three of those because they are significant. I want to go through the €220 million underspend in social housing for local authorities, the €24 million underspend in defects and the €70 million underspend in the affordable housing fund. I accept the Minister is reallocating that money elsewhere, and I will come to that. Am I correct to say that the €220 million underspend within the local authority subhead is local authority new builds, which are not going to get built within this year and therefore the money is being moved to other areas?

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