Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.
9:30 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
I will ask Ms Timmons to come in on the void figures in a moment. I would just say that we do not count voids in terms of housing delivery but we do fund them and are very anxious to see those void units used. We have provided significant funding in the last couple of years. There was stimulus funding about two years ago that was a blitz on a lot of that activity. Different local authorities have different approaches to voids. Some do minimal refurbishment to get the unit in and others do more extensive-----