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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: 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,

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 want to go through three of those because they are significant. I want to go through the €220 million underspend in social housing for local authorities, the €24 million underspend in defects and the €70 million underspend in the affordable housing fund. I accept the Minister is reallocating that money elsewhere, and I will come to that. Am I correct to say that the...

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: Yes-----

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 just that I only have a few minutes, and I want to understand the document.

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: A significant number of local authority new builds will not conclude this year and therefore the money is being moved elsewhere.

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: Absolutely.

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 literally coming to that question if the Minister will give me the opportunity. There is €220 million for local authority new builds, for which the local authorities will not meet their targets. The Minister is therefore moving that money to a number of other subheads. Where exactly is that €220 million going? The Minister said the-----