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

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not have that figure to hand but I do know that the veto has been removed. If I can return to the issues Deputy Cowen mentions in terms of what I can announce prior to the budget then I will.

Deputy Boyd Barrett talked about the social mix being inconsistent. The provision of 10% is the minimum for social housing. As I mentioned in my earlier statement, we are using other mechanisms now to make sure that this is more than 10% and also that we see affordable buy and affordable rent. The former Minister, Deputy Coveney, did a very important piece of work on what would be delivered on the Irish Glass Bottle site, above the 10%. The residents have done a huge amount of work. I was down on the site with Deputy Coveney and the residents. They have proved an excellent lobby group and mechanism for ensuring that we use all of our resources, and not just the local authority and councillors, to make sure that we can do that. When it comes to how we use public land, we have to recognise that we are not ourselves builders and developers so we need companies to come in to do this work. There needs to be a financial return for that and there also needs to be a mix of private and public ownership and use.

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