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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 (19 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: What were the highest and lowest spends on those in 2023? What was the highest amount the Department gave to a single group and what was the lowest? What was the scale? Is it from €10 million a year up to €200 million? What is it roughly?

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 (19 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: On Deputy McGrath’s point, I would have heard things anecdotally about funding for housing bodies. We hear it is slow to be released and is drying up. I hate to ask about this again. The only reason I am doing so is because I have also heard that they are short of cash.

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 (19 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: Irish Water has looked for an extra €2 billion over the next four years. Mr. Doyle mentioned Irish Water and the €10.2 billion. For any extra increase in housing, it will need a further €2 billion. Will it get that?

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 (19 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: That will come out in the NDP. Is that still planned for July?

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 (19 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: I have raised this with the Minister, but can we get it increased? If the cap is set so low that people cannot use these loans in order to meet affordable house prices in Kildare, that makes no sense.

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 (19 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: Thank you.

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 (19 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: We obviously need more affordable housing. Who sets the prices for affordable housing? We have a really strange situation in Kildare. Recently, local authority houses were put up for sale as affordable houses. They are valued at €365,000 but people who apply for the local authority home loan are capped at buying houses valued below €360,000. Someone can only use a local...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: If the Cathaoirleach overruns on his time slot, who pulls him up on it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: There was an increase of 8.1% in spending, if I am correct. That would exceed growth in the economy. How can that be balanced to ensure it does not continue on that trajectory?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: How can we support Irish businesses? I was on the other side of the fence for the past number of years. Particularly during Covid, supports from the Government kept a lot of businesses afloat. Over the past year or two, the cost of business has risen, as has the cost of living, which we are all conscious of. How can we ensure over the longer term that foreign revenue is replaced?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: I have kind of left the Minister, Deputy Chambers, off. I have not focused on his area as much. I am also a member of the infrastructure committee. I am sure the Minister will appear before us many times.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: I look forward to it. I am a TD from north Kildare, which has grown substantially in population but has an infrastructural deficit. The bridges and trains are not there. We have missed out on the way the leafy suburbs of south Dublin have benefited historically. I have some questions for the Minister, Deputy Chambers. Are there simple steps we can take to deliver infrastructure more...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank both Ministers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: 98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an interim measure, such as payment by app, which happens in other cities, could be explored for public transport until contactless payment becomes an option; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33948/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: Can we get a contactless payment system in the interim? Obviously, the timelines have been highlighted. It might be another two, three or four years before things happen. Could we look at putting in place an interim measure that whereby people could use app to make contactless payments? Coming from north Kildare, it does not seem reasonable that we should expect it to take three or four years.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: The reason I bring up contactless payments is because I commute from north Kildare. As someone who has used buses and trains over years, I have seen the improvements in the public transport system. At the same time, contactless payments are something we have seen in many other countries and cities. A lot of people would have used them in different places. I see no reason Dublin and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: There is a serious issue with the insufficient central funding Kildare County Council gets. Since I started in the Dáil I have raised deficits in Kildare covering a range of issues and especially impacting due to our growing population. These include the lack of gardaí, lack of childcare and even the water infrastructure that seems to be crumbling in our areas. In 2022 the...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: I will focus on the issue at hand and what we are here to discuss. I came here to welcome the Bill in a changing world from the Government benches. As a country, we are familiar historically with terrorist activity; we have seen it on our own shores. We have seen waves of it throughout Europe and America over the recent years and especially in the 21st century. That terrorism has taken...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: The Leas-Chathaoirleach will have to step in. I am only joking and I am using up my own time in so doing. I thank the Ministers and their teams for coming to the meeting. As a new TD, I ask lots of questions, both out of my own interest and on behalf of the public that elected me. Both of the Ministers were in the previous Government. They have both helped to guide the country. Deputy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Neville: It is the Limerick connection.