Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
Okay. I thank Mr. Benson. In the 2023 accounts, there was a significant underspend of €255 million in the local authority housing expenditure. We have an acute housing crisis now. We had one in 2023. People will find it difficult to understand how €255 million was not spent. Can we have some commentary on that?
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