Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 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 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

There is the local authority building and the approved housing body, AHB, building. On turnkey properties, we have tried to get away from situations where turnkeys are being developed by local authorities or AHBs in respect of units that would otherwise be available on the open market. What we try to do is to use turnkey properties to deliver units that would otherwise not be delivered in those cases. Specifically, in terms of the numbers, if we take the local authority element of this building, the figure last year was 1,666 units initiated in new-build projects under the auspices of the local authorities. There were 1,200 turnkey developments but again the focus would have been on turnkeys that would not otherwise have been developed.