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
10:00 am
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Knowledge of the toolbox in one thing, but we also need local authorities to have ambition. Since they have spent so much time not being in this space I can appreciate where their ambition might be limited, but the Department's role is to set that ambition. Do the officials believe there is the willingness in local authorities to develop affordable purchase in particular, which is a new model for them they will need to get their head around?