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
Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
I want to touch very briefly on homelessness services. Every single week we have people calling to the constituency offices looking for emergency accommodation. I am sure everybody here will say the same. They cannot access it. How did the Department envisage that the cost of homelessness services would be less in 2023 than in 2022? In 2022, a total of €242 million was given to homelessness services. In 2023, it was €215 million. It beggars belief.
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