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

Mr. Graham Doyle:

We absolutely are moving to such an approach. We have been doing so. We have a new design manual in place - it is not quite new anymore - that we are strongly encouraging. It has been made all but mandatory in local authority schemes in terms of the layouts of houses provided for different sets of circumstances. There is a very detailed manual. It supports modern methods of construction. There are all kinds of benefits to it. It gets local authorities through the process much faster if they use it. I am very happy to talk about it but I know time is limited.