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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and his staff for the briefing notes and explanation. I have a lot of questions about where the money is going and I might come back to some of those in the second round. The first thing I want to look at is where the money has come from. On the Revised Estimates sheet that we have been given, of the €586 million in additional money, €432 million is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am going to come back to that and I have queries around that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is all very interesting and some of it is what I would have come to, but it does not answer the first question. Again, I want to come to those other issues because they are important. There is within housing, at head A, an underspend of €432 million, which the Minister is then reallocating within the subhead, which I accept. We do not have the REV broken down by each individual...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not a trick question. It is just a run-through as to which subhead and how much of an underspend on each.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My apologies, the very first question, and it honestly is not a trick question, is this: in each of the revenue subheads, there is a portion of underspending which the Minister is now reallocating. What I am asking is where the non-spending is taking place.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there an underspend on that? That is what I am asking.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister does have-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Which subhead is that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Which is A15?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Our problem is that we are not given the REV.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that A17?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about A17?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am out of time. I just want to repeat the question because I am going to come back to it. I want to come back to where the money has gone because I have questions on that and the Minister still has not told us. What I want to know is how much the underspend is within each of those heads and what that otherwise would have been spent on. For example, on A3, local authority housing, what I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am out of time but I will come back in on the second round.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are existing in real terms, but that is not the point. Just so I am clear, because I am understanding this document a bit better. A total of €220 million of the underspend is from the local authority line, €10.8 million is from mortgage to rent, €800,000 is from older persons disabilities, €10 million is from regeneration, €1 million is from repair...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come to that. There is a €70 million underspend in the affordable housing fund. This is just so we understand it. This is not me picking a row with the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister answered the questions, I would not have to pick a row,