Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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A lot of that would be inflation, which is fair enough, but the big-ticket item from last year's expenditure is that there is under-expenditure right across the programmes. Owing to that, there is an overspend in housing. The outturn turned out to be €50 million more than anticipated. What was budgeted for was €50 million more. There was €193 million allocated and the outturn was €242 million; however, because the other housing programmes are underperforming, here we are with homelessness. We are trying to shore up homelessness by firing money at hotels and private accommodation providers. That is what is happening. It is a big failure.