Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

The Department is absolutely committed to and actively engaging with all local authorities to try to bring forward as many social housing projects as our resources can accommodate. Going back to the pipeline of projects that I referred to, there are more than 500 projects in it involving more than 8,500 social housing units. There is an absolute drive and commitment and a very proactive engagement with individual local authorities. I am not familiar with the detail of the specific case mentioned by the Deputy. However, I can certainly say that-----