Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not in any way being adversarial. If we go onto the website, none of them meet the criterion of 150 units, in particular in Archers Wood, which has houses, duplexes and apartments, which is sub that number. What is more concerning about Archers Wood is that it was a Cairn Homes development. Cairn Homes does not need the LDA to activate. It was building out and ready to sell. It does seem that the LDA is struggling currently to get those higher density inner urban schemes because of the cost, which is prohibitive. It is now doing what many of us feared, it is entering into direct competition with local authorities, approved housing bodies, first-time buyers and buying up units that would have gone to the market anyway, in order for it to be able to show some cost rental. I am concerned that it is a trend that develops, which is very different from what we were told the scheme would be.

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