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
Mr. Paul Benson:
I will clarify that as I do not want to have misled anybody by giving the wrong impression in terms of approvals. We have approved a huge number of projects in the last three weeks and that is effectively on the back of the €750 million extra that we got. We are prioritising projects for 2025 delivery in terms of approvals. We have some projects, a small number, that are not being progressed and are for 2027, 2028 and 2026 delivery. They are not on-site. They are within the system and being held up. They may be the ones that people talk about but they are very small in number. We are collating statistics so we can report on that, and we are happy to share them.
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