Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Housing Schemes Expenditure: Think-tank for Action on Social Change

9:30 am

Dr. Robert Sweeney:

That would be fair. It is for the Government to forecast because it is pulling the policy strings, but we need an increase. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, for instance, is calling for a doubling of capital expenditure for public hosing output and I certainly support that because we have such supply constraints in our housing market at the moment.