Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 March 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Ms Dara Deering:
The schemes we funded through the momentum fund were shovel-ready. They were ready to get going with workers who needed to have construction activity. That is why we were very keen to keep it going. To come back to the Deputy's original point, I totally agree that we need more building outside the main urban areas. That is one of our objectives and motivations and that is why we have a team of people trying to support schemes in those areas. We do not get bundles of applications from all the counties. We would like to see more and we have the capacity to fund more but finance is obviously just one of the challenges in trying to bring forward that supply.