Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 May 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

National Asset Management Agency

10:30 am

Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

All our units were made available through the Housing Agency, which then went to local authorities and told them how many houses and apartments were available and where they were available, in Kildare, Naas, Sallins or wherever. We offered them up and the local authority came back to the Housing Agency to say, for example, it only wanted ten in Kildare town, six in Naas and so on. That was completely the decision of the local authority. As I said earlier, the reality is that if we had ten more left in Naas that the local authority did not take, the debtor would advertise them in the private market and would rent them very quickly because the demand was there. Whether the local authority took them was its own decision.

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