Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
I agree with Deputy McAuliffe about the tenant in situ scheme. Some local authorities are not participating in it for funding reasons. Currently, a pipeline of schemes in the Department of housing are stalled because of funding issues. In a crisis, that seems ludicrous. The NDP is coming but I want an assurance that it will be treated as an emergency as the Minister for housing has stated. That is what we need to see. I know Mr. Moloney has commented on it, but I wanted to make that point.
Regarding large-scale projects such as the children's hospital, where an overall figure of €2.3 billion is likely, other large-scale projects are coming and, in the context of the NDP, we will see a lot of capital expenditure. What reassurance can we give the public that we will not see significant budget overruns in other projects like there have been in the children's hospital?
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