Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services

10:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

None of the sites that have been taken into the scheme have been developed at this point. The Housing Agency has been tasked with developing a strategy in respect of the future use of those sites. That work is at an advanced stage and I expect that the Department should be receiving the agency's report in the next couple of months. That is the position at one level in terms of charting a way forward with regard to those specific sites. Separately, the Housing Agency is engaging with all local authorities to consider the position in respect of the land bank outside the scheme and to update the relevant information base for us. We will seek to match both of these items of information with the implementation of the new social housing strategy, which envisages a significant ramping up in terms of social housing delivery in the next six years.

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