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. John McCarthy:
It would depend on the extent to which there may be a financial issue associated with it. Sometimes, for example, there are many parts of the State where one can continue to buy vacant stock much cheaper than building it. This was discussed when we met with some of the local authorities recently.