Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion
9:00 am
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
Overall, the arithmetic does not work out. The other day Mr. Brendan Kenny said to us that if Dublin City Council were to build property directly on its own land, it had one port of call, namely, the Department. That is where the council must obtain approval, money and so on. However, with all of these mixed tenure arrangements, essentially the agency will have three ports of call. Am I right in saying that? The arrangement for the public housing element will involve the Department. There will then be another set of financing arrangements for the affordable housing element. There will be another set of financing arrangements for the property to be disposed of to private developers.
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