Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 January 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund
9:30 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
I cannot give the Deputy an accurate number but I can give him an estimate and I will tell him why. The completion of a lot of these projects has taken place in the last quarter of 2022. We tried to bring about a situation where that could be spread a little bit over the course of the year. Due to the issues that happened in 2022 with inflation, retendering of projects and supply chains, the profile of expenditure got worse in 2022 in terms of a huge amount of it being back-ended to the end of the year and a lot of delivery being in December. For example-----