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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)

Darragh O'Brien: If the Deputy is asking me a question, he should let me answer it. It will be substantially up on last year and will be-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: It will be substantially up. Every home is important to the families who get them, so do not be trite about it, okay?

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)

Darragh O'Brien: What I am saying to the Deputy is, I am projecting the local authority element of delivery on affordable purchase will be below delivery target, but the overall-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: This is not a virement; this is a Supplementary Estimate.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy will see in quarter 1 next year when we have concluded the year. The year is not concluded yet. We will be providing-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: No, it is not.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: I am trying to answer, if the Deputy would just stop jumping in and interrupting me. This is really important.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: I am not sure whether-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: It depends on one's definition of restrained. About €50 million of the funds moved from the affordable housing fund will be going into the purchase of land for future affordable housing delivery. What I said earlier on at this meeting, but maybe the Deputy was not listening-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: -----is that we have approved over 62 schemes across the country for over 4,500 affordable homes.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: First, we have not concluded the year yet. Second, our affordable target is an overall target of 5,500 through various affordability-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: What I am saying to the Deputy is that the local authorities-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: I am not; the Deputy just will not let me answer it. The local authorities will deliver significantly more affordable units this year than they did last year. Let us remember where they were starting from. Before Housing for All, they were starting-----

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)

Darragh O'Brien: They were starting from zero.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: I know that. A15 is estate regeneration and refurbishment, for which there is a small reallocation. There will be an underspend in regard to defective home remediation.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: You have to manage the budget you have, and 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)

Darragh O'Brien: It will, 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)

Darragh O'Brien: No, what the Deputy is asking me to do is to give him a definitive answer on what the output will be at the end of the year when the year has not concluded. It is a ridiculous question.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: It is a ridiculous question.

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)

Darragh O'Brien: I have just told the Deputy but he does not even want to hear the answer. We will deliver significantly more affordable housing through the local authorities, the LDA and the first home scheme than we did last year. We will deliver significantly more.