Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

11:25 am

Ms Cathleen Morrison:

We have very few vacant sites available that would be suitable for building houses. At all times, we support other Departments like the Department of integration, the Land Development Agency and agencies like that those have more direct responsibility for the provision of housing. If we identify any surplus lands, they are made available to other State agencies under the protocols laid out by the Department of public expenditure. We have quite a good track record in making lands and buildings available to other agencies in that regard over the past number of years.