Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

That is what we are trying to get to the bottom of. We thought we had gotten to the bottom of it and we made these changes but that still has not resulted in the take-up. Talking about the 59-week process, in terms of it being cumbersome, the 59-week process if it works the way that it should - it is aligned with private sector best practice in terms of housing development - it can actually deliver projects in as fast a manner as the private sector and it can provide the certainty that the local authorities need.

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