Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities.

4:30 pm

Mr. Graham Doyle:

We set targets around this. The way the Department has looked at this previously is how much build can conceivably be delivered reasonably in terms of ramping up over a period of time and meeting the projected housing need through the various blends. If we can get the build output, which the State has ramped up the over recent years and is certainly going to continue to do that, we will start to reduce the reliance on that. It is about setting targets based on cutting your cloth around the mix that can be delivered because, ultimately, we have got to put roofs over people's heads.