Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites
9:30 am
Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I could ask ten more questions on that but want to talk about LIHAF. The estimated provision was €32 million and the outturn was €17 million. This is all about trying to unlock infrastructure. We touched on this when talking about the land aggregation scheme and the fact that some sites are difficult to develop because of infrastructural blockages. The fund is aimed at trying to explode the bottlenecks, and we are massively under profile in terms of expenditure. I find this really frustrating because the towns and villages affected are very often the ones I find throughout my constituency that want to build on the small housing estate but find there is no headroom within the water infrastructure, for example. Why are we not getting more serious about making the LIHAF expenditure behave according to profile?
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