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:
We have tried to avoid that in the sense that we do not want the provision of social housing through the local authorities to compete with the private sector so we have tried to manage it in a way that prevents that from happening. Many people were anti-turnkey properties, for example, a few years ago for that reason. It was happening more than it is now. On the turnkey property side, we have tried to encourage a situation where a local authority can deliver in areas it does not have land and housing is required and where houses would not otherwise be built. That is the philosophy behind it now too.