Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed)

5:00 pm

Mr. Bob Jordan:

I completely agree with Mr. Allen. The land should be released. When we built 93,000 houses in 2006, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 of them were for social housing. Last year we built 8,500 houses, of which 750 were for social housing. The percentages were the same, however. My concern is that a substantial amount of new supply should be ring-fenced for social housing purposes and to deliver on the social dividend to which Mr. Allen refers.

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