Restoring Housing Capital Budget to 2008 levels

​QUESTION

To ask the Minister for Housing; Planning and Local Government the estimated first and full year cost of increasing the housing capital budget to 2008 levels.

REPLY

The 2018 capital provision for housing is €1.141 billion.  The cost of increasing the capital provision to the 2008 expenditure level is €375 million.  

The total housing budget for 2018 is €1.9 billion compared with expenditure of €1.7 billion in 2008.