Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

I am a chartered accountant by profession. I do the same thing. I can see this, but I can also see the amount of scrutiny that goes into trying to negotiate and work through the Estimates process with our colleagues in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. It is significant. There are a lot of new areas in housing. There are a lot of things that are very dependent on what happens in the market. As the Deputy said, 2022 was a particularly volatile year in the market generally with all of the changes that took place, including with construction shutting down. The Deputy knows all of these things. Yes, it is very challenging to try to put these numbers together.