Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 pm

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

What we have tried to achieve and what we are doing on social housing, the first focus of Rebuilding Ireland was the work done on putting in place planned preparations for massive social housing and building a framework to do that social house building. What we have been talking about for the 14 months that I have been in the job, and in addition to that, is to do even more on subsidised housing. This a general and wider type of housing which has affordability. When I came to the LDA and we were designing it, I wanted to ensure that as a big gun with big firepower, it would be delivering more on the affordable side. It is up to every site to determine what mix will be obtained. On certain sites it could be 30:20.

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