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:
The capital allocations particularly for the Department were set in early 2021. Obviously the construction shutdowns and the inflation, in particular, that hit in the early part of 2022 were absolutely unprecedented. I know we have had this conversation with this committee a number of times. Last year we were budgeting for 9,000 new-build social homes, for example. It was a 7,500 output which was substantially more than had been delivered in previous years but not at the stretched target.