Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised)
2:00 am
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
It is important that we do not waste our time having rows over numbers. Chair, it might be really useful if the Department were to furnish us with the outturn under each of the heads and programmes across the Department. This would mean us having the two sets of figures which would be useful. I could ask for them through parliamentary questions but it would be useful if the Department were to give us that outturn for all of those programme heads.
Moving on to targets, until the NDP review is done and the Minister negotiates with his Cabinet colleagues on capital ceilings, he will not be able to give definitive answers about new-build social or affordable targets. That being said, is it the Minister's hope or desire that the current target of 10,000 new-build socials and 4,400 cost rentals and affordable purchases should increase? Would the Minister like to see those targets increase, subject to the outcome of the NDP capital ceiling review?
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