Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
11:30 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
It has certainly been a few months. The issues have been legal issues around what we can or cannot publish. It would be fair to say we are pretty much there or thereabouts and I would hope that in the next few weeks we should be in a position to be able to complete that piece of work.
The Deputy also mentioned the issue of the cost rental model. There is a commitment on that in the rental strategy. I suppose there are two commitments. On affordable rental, the commitment is to take that forward on a case-by-case basis on individual State land sites where that is appropriate. We are engaging, in particular, with Dublin City Council, around what role it might be able to play in a number of the projects that it has brought forward. There is a broader question around cost rental and its role in the long term, and there is a commitment in the rental strategy that we will do an initial piece of work on that and complete that by the end of the year. That is still our target.
No comments