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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: I could pick through Deputy Ó Broin's housing policy if I actually saw one published.

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 little bit frustrating when Deputy Ó Broin keeps interrupting.

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: He is a much more reasonable man.

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: Just to be helpful, the Deputy is mixing up CAS and CAF. CAS is the capital assistance scheme which is essentially straight purchase.

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: Yes, but not just that. There is other delivery too-----

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: -----and that is 100% funded.

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: Yes, CAS is 100% funded.

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: Yes it 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)

Darragh O'Brien: It is 100% funded.

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 100% State funded.

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: Deputy Ó Broin is coming back in again.

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 €220 million is capital-----

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: We are talking about our gross voted capital provision. That is what we are talking about here. We are not on the current side. That is all staying within the A housing Vote. It is being reallocated within the Vote to help us to deliver in areas where we are delivering. Local authorities will still deliver more direct-build housing this year than they did last year. The AHBs 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 is going to be much better.

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 going to be spent.

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 the gross voted capital provision. It is capital. All of these subheads here that we are talking about are capital.

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: That is CAF. CAF is matched by HFA funding but CAS is not. Deputy Ó Broin and I can argue about this but it is 100% State funded. It is not borrowing, it is capital. I am genuinely trying to be helpful here. Let us take Dublin City Council for argument's sake. There are some large developments in Dublin City Council that we are estimating will not conclude this year but will...

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 going to the land acquisition fund.

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: We should take a long-term view. We are building more social housing now than we have built for 50 years. We will have a record year this year. It is right and proper, where we see opportunities for AHBs and local authorities to purchase land to deliver social housing, that we facilitate that. The land acquisition fund-----

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 I say so myself, was an extremely successful initiative. It was very much welcomed by local authorities and AHBs because it means they can build up their land bank and pipeline and plan ahead.