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. Paul Benson:
-----to process applications. The position is that even if the council was to undertake to carry out commitments this year, it is probable that quite a number of those will not complete this year. Conveyancing would not be completed and funding would not be required, so it is going to take a level of commitment from Cork City Council and other local authorities to projects that will not need funding until 2026. It is not necessarily the case that the funding will be provided in 2025 for a lot of the acquisitions that will happen in the latter part of this year. In that sense, it should be proceeding with the scheme.