Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 November 2025

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary)

2:00 am

Photo of James BrowneJames Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

There were. I will get that figure in a minute. I am just trying to recall the overall amount. I think it is €375 million at the moment. We predict there will be about 800 potential acquisitions over the year, but we are waiting for the local authorities to come in with their final numbers. One of the things that did impact it this year, however, was the substantial cost from local authorities. This money is to purchase houses to prevent people from going into homelessness, but there seemed to be an awful lot of legacy costs around refurbishment that local authorities had not been sending up the bills for. They have been sending up the bills now under this year's funding. As far as I am concerned, that was never the intention of this funding and going forward it will not be the case.

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