Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 June 2021

Public Accounts Committee

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

10:00 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

There are a couple of components to value for money. It includes issues around the maintenance of properties, etc., over time. Fundamentally, part of that is to provide housing where it is needed as quickly as possible, under the pressures that the State has been under to do so over the last number of years. These current programmes have allowed that to happen. Of course, we would prefer to be delivering new build properties, which is what we do-----