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:
We have been able to apply underspend in certain areas to other areas where the delivery has been very good, for example, under the capital assistance scheme. There are some good news stories where we have seen over-delivery and an ability to apply funding. We have been able to fund land. There are quite a number of things we have been able to do. It is obviously very challenging. We sit down at the start of any year or over a number of years when dealing with a NDP programme. The capital allocations under the NDP were agreed back in 2021. A lot has happened in the world since 2021. As one looks out into any period, budgeting in any organisation is a difficult thing. I have been engaged with it in many different types of organisations. From my experience, I would say the most complex version is in a Department like this.