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:
We are very anxious to fund voids. I can never say that we will fund any request that comes in but we are very anxious to spend the budget available to us. I have detailed figures on the Deputy's question in front of me now. I will not take up his time by giving them all but the bottom line, looking at significant refurbishment programmes or voids, which are not as significant, is that there are about 2,000 units in total. Some of those are significant refurbishments, which involve taking families out and putting them back in.