Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion
9:30 am
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Not necessarily. We are looking at a couple of mechanisms whereby we might be able to fast-track some of the affordable purchase schemes, depending on some of the sites that are currently being identified for local authorities. It might be the case that in a month's time I will not be able to confirm, but right now we have only just landed this with the local authorities. There may be potential to do this more quickly than anticipated. However, I need to clarify that first. All I can confirm today is that we anticipate that affordable purchase scheme homes will commence construction this year.
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