Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Parlon:

Well, since I remember the Maynooth, and I just know that that was back in March 2010 ... they did a figure. There was the urban environmental project in UCD suggested an even higher figure, and, the following February, the Department of the Environment said ... you know they talked about the ... Maynooth I think talked about 300,000 houses, eventually the Department said it was about 25,000 completed houses in the State ... new houses. But since then, the Department of the Environment, the CIF and a number of other stakeholders have been involved in a ... in a stakeholder group looking at the estates with the local authorities and so on ... and my understanding now is there's been massive progress in terms if either finishing out the parts that were viable, closing them down, putting in the services and so on and making life a bit more comfortable for the people that had the misfortune to invest in those particular estates.

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