Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion
5:00 pm
Mr. Brendan Kenny:
The private sector is not building fast enough at all; it needs to do more. That is something we would be reluctant to do. We can do it under the legislation but our view would be that we would prefer to see the market doing it and getting on with it and then us delivering the Part V, the 10% that goes to us. That is the easiest way. In fairness, we are getting developments in parts of the city that never got them before, the likes of Ballsbridge, the docklands, Donnybrook and areas like that. They are making a big contribution and it is getting bigger. I am not sure about us going down the line of taking the land. It could be complicated and I do not think we could do it any quicker.
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