Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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That is one of my concerns. I am glad Mr. Moloney has raised it. I am concerned it is being spent at the end of the year in a sort of heavy way on a range of different projects, including the purchase of turnkeys, which the Department says helps finance the development of those properties. That is fine except there is a willing market out there already looking to purchase homes. I am interested in Mr. Moloney's Department's oversight relative to the capital spend relative to profile and its capacity to do that. I understand his Department has that oversight role and that it has somebody liaising with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on its capital spend. It does, does it not?