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 have released quite a lot of funding recently in project approvals in respect of cost-rental and social homes. We did need additional funding. We got additional funding for the projects that were available. The delivery of cost-rental housing has rocketed in recent years. Last year, we had a budget of about €110 million for CREL projects. We spent, with supplementary funding, four times that at about €435 million. This year, our budget for CREL is €595 million. That funding has hugely increased over that time as delivery has increased.