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. Graham Doyle:

In terms of the overall level of funding, work was done with the CCMA several years ago to identify needs in the areas of social housing and affordable housing. We would then negotiate with the Department of public expenditure and reform to determine how much funding can be provided. We would then provide that funding to the local authorities based on an agreed level of resourcing within whatever that envelope is. That is how the process works. As a Department, we are very conscious of the need to have people who can deliver, especially if we are talking about own-build construction projects in local authorities. It is necessary to have people there to bring those projects forward and initiate them. As a result, we are back looking at this issue again. Mr. Benson has something to add.

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