Despite extreme need, Department of Housing fails to use €141 million available to it last year and carries it over into 2024
Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin: 'Minister O’Brien has failed to spend his full capital allocation every year.' Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
The figure for the Department of Housing brings its cumulative figure for the past four years to €1.66 billion with more than €1.1 billion of that having been earmarked for the provision of social and affordable housing.Is my neighbour liable for damage to my property caused by their renovation works?
“The capital allocations and the delivery targets for social affordable housing are far too low. And the Government’s year-on-year failure to meet those targets of new-build social affordable homes has the direct result of leading to increases in homelessness, but also increases in house prices and rents.
The €45 million underspend at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, represents about 15 per cent of that department’s 2024 capital budget while the €15 million carry-over at An Garda Síochána is equivalent to almost 10 per cent of the force’s capital budget for this year.
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