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:
The bulk of the underspend was in the social housing area. There was a huge amount of capital negotiated to fine deliver on the targets. The targets were not met and there was a different mix of delivery, which also impacts the up-front capital outlay. It is for those two reasons we see the underspend, and particularly in 2022.