Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Mr. Patrick Robinson:

It seems hard to see that it would, but the purpose of the working group is to look at not just our information, but others' as well. I can say that the most recent study we did in London, which was designed to answer exactly that question - "Is this having an impact?" - looked area by area. Those who carried out the study could see that at some point in the future if growth continued with no effective regulation in place, there might be an impact on housing, but they could not identify any today. They found that if we put in place a few steps to stop that happening, there would continue to be no impact. I would find it hard to believe Dublin is any different in this respect, but let us see.

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