'That's just an absolutely ridiculous situation where a third of the budget that they expected to spend at this point in time has not been spent.'
The Government “need to be able to spend the money that has been allocated them”, Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty has said.
“That comes on top of the fact that there's €1 billion in housing that hasn't been spent over the last three years. Fine Gael spokesperson on Public Expenditure, Bernard Durkan, said the Government “have to be careful that we don't go on a splurge.” “There are various issues that slow down the degree to which anybody or any party can respond in respect of building houses.”“In terms of the expenditure in housing, this isn't a ramp-up of expenditure suddenly,” he said.
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