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:

I suppose a lot of their schemes, particularly cost rental, have been built around an apartment model. We talk about the housing market a lot. I often feel we should be talking about a housing market and an apartment market and we do this within the Department. If you look over the last number of years and at what happened last year with output, and we talked about output numbers earlier on, houses increased but apartments fell. Therefore, if you look at both and track them on a graph, you will see housing continued to increase last year; it was the apartment piece that started to fall.