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:
Funding has not been denied for any of that, despite the budget to which the Deputy referred.
The Minister for public expenditure made clear to us repeatedly at budget time in recent years his commitment to funding homeless services. The spend was well above the budget figure. The money was provided.