Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised)
4:40 pm
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Yes. We sought and received flexibility within those subheads too. Towards the end of last year, we had to move money, as I mentioned. The secure tenancy affordable rental, STAR, scheme did not exist. I will not say that will not happen again. We might have a new delivery mechanism we have to fund, which we did successfully last year when the STAR scheme was opened. We needed to fund it. We made changes to CREL which we also needed to fund. Especially on the housing output side, across affordable and social housing, there is heavy expenditure already this year and I expect us to spend those subheads out.
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