Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
The appropriation account for Vote 34 and the Local Government Fund account need to be examined together to get an understanding of the scale and nature of operation of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. The appropriation account for Vote 34 records gross expenditure of €2,087 million in 2017. This was substantially greater than in 2016, when gross expenditure amounted to just under €1.4 billion, which is a 49% increase year on year.