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

Photo of John BradyJohn Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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The local authority will say the reason many of those houses are boarded up, some for over two years and more, is because of the lack of funding coming from central government. Can the witnesses give assurances that for any request coming from a local authority to carry out a pre-letting works on a local authority house that is boarded up, 100% funding on request will be provided by the Department?