Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government
9:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
Much of it comes down to scale. Deputy Cassells and I were discussing a development of 2,000 or 3,000 units, all of which would be for social housing. Quite a few projects in our mainstream social housing pipeline are in the order of 50 to 60 units. We generally do not have an issue with a social housing block of that scale. In larger sites, for example, O'Devaney Gardens where 600 housing units might be built, one would seek to get a mixed tenure on the site. In other cases, a smaller social housing development in the wider context can achieve the broader mixed tenure. These sites were proposed by the local authorities in the first instance. Under the process, the broader housing tenure mix in the wider areas was examined and the sites were considered suitable to be taken forward as part of that project.
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