Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 June 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed)

10:20 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

If the Department over the years had managed to spend that money on new build, the question would have arisen as to where to put the people we had not managed to house. New build would not have delivered for all of those people. There had to be a scheme to house people over that period. The public would not have been better off because there were many people we would not have been able to house over that period of time.