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:
As regards those grants, I think the funding that has been provided has increased over recent years. I will just get the figures here. In just the past three years the funding has moved from about €56 million to €69 million, and this year it is around the same amount. Around 12,000 adaptation grants have been done in the past couple of years and, as far as I am aware, we are essentially at full spend on those items. This is Ms Timmons's area in the context of looking to increase that budget, if that is what the Deputy is asking.