Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised)
2:00 am
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
Okay, but let us take the example of a local authority drawing down money from A3 for a building project. There would be a land element to that and that makes complete sense. Separately, however, funding was set aside. The former Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, brought a Supplementary Estimate in his last year where, because there had been an underspend in the building of social homes and to prevent the money being lost, it was put into a fund for AHBs and local authorities to buy land. It might not necessarily have been connected to a specific housing project at the time of purchase. Where is this funding? Is it still in A3 or is it somewhere else?
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