Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Committee on Housing and Homelessness
Housing Agency
10:30 am
Mr. Conor Skehan:
I wish to take that question first, because it is an interesting question. Our chief executive would like to comment on it.
I agree with Deputy Coppinger that there are large sites in the hands of the public sector, local authorities or others. The Housing Agency has mapped all the local authority housing lands and lands under land aggregation. The local authorities have assessed that. The striking aspect of much of that land is that some sites are very large and in order to use them, we have to build on scale. The Deputy is right, we need a mix of housing for people of different income levels and affordable housing across the board. We also need to build on the small sites. The land mapping shows several large sites and if we want to meet the targets, we have to build on those and provide housing for a range of income groups.
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