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. David Kelly:
There is fairly significant engagement between the Departments. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has a very challenging task to provide accommodation. It is not clear if there will be an impact. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, are obviously responsible for providing accommodation and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is responsible for dealing with homeless services. We do not know if that will have an impact. I am not going to say to Deputy Dillon that it will not have an impact but I know that Department is also working to make sure that it has sufficient accommodation.