Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage

10:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

The element of the social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, that relates to the private piece, the leases the Deputy is referring to, amounted to €57 million. Much of that SHCEP goes towards payment and availability agreement payments to approved housing bodies. It is high but not high enough to justify the Deputy's fear of breaching the €1 billion mark. In terms of shifting away from-----