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

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

No, the question I am asking Mr. Doyle to answer is whether - given that by the second half of 2022 from the list Mr. Doyle supplied helpfully to the committee, those four local authorities could be seen - any official from Mr. Doyle's Department phoned them to ask: "Hey guys, what is happening down there? Why are there no schemes coming onstream there? Why have you not built any houses? Do you have sites?". Some of those have sites under the LAGS so the issue is not sites. A budget has been provided so there is money. I would argue that if we could put more budget into it, we should do it. There is a reasonable budget there for it. What is happening?