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:
Yes. As the Deputy knows, I was not involved in housing at that time but as we look back, we can see that there capital constraints over a number of years. Many local authorities got out of the business of building houses. All of that had to be restarted. There was much criticism of this Department and Government over time in terms of how quickly it could get all of that moving again. Yet, ultimately, we now find ourselves at a point where, in the last three years we brought about Housing for All. We tried to bring about-----