Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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Our spend on homelessness in 2023 was €317 million. That just brings me to the current situation with the tenant in situ scheme, which has effectively stalled throughout the country from what I can see because of budgeting issues. How is it viewed that not purchasing a house under the tenant in situ scheme is better value for money than putting someone into homeless accommodation? How do we make that calculation?