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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is people on the list. It is the overall figure. I am talking about the number of approved applications. We are not even at the year end, so it will exceed 300, yet the number of units that will be built under Rebuilding Ireland will be much less than that. We then look at the number of units that will be built up to 2021. My point is that the targets we have set are woefully unambitious and will not in any way tackle the housing crisis in the county I represent. I am saying that is a microcosm of what is happening in the State.

I know others want to come in so I will leave it at that. Mr. McCarthy might come back on that and I will wait until the second round to raise other issues.

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