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:

All the sites will certainly be mapped. A significant quantum of public funding has been committed in the social housing strategy to support its implementation over the next six years. I would nearly turn it on its head. I would be saying to the local authorities that we have a strategy, we all know we have this quantum of land, and I would ask them to show what they can bring forward. Local authorities have a better idea of where the need is in their areas. What we are doing as part of the target-setting process-----

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