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)
There are between 3,500 and 4,000 vacant houses at this point in time. I know they are vacant for different periods and so on. The witnesses can understand how it looks, when there are more than 15,000 people in emergency accommodation at a significant cost and there are more than 3,000 potentially vacant houses. There seems to be an issue with funding, again, to the local authorities. They argue they do not have sufficient funding. Surely, that has to be a priority.
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