Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 June 2021

Public Accounts Committee

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

11:20 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

It is something we have to continue to focus on. It has been a feature; I absolutely accept the Deputy's point. I know in the case of Covid there were significant efforts to spend in relation to trying to safeguard people from that community in terms of capital spend. I think over the last year there has certainly been more spent. However, this has been a feature over the last number of years and we need to focus more on making sure that capital money is taken up and spent in the local authorities.