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:

I would not say it is being done collectively within the system, but many local authorities are very active in that space, primarily because they now have their social housing targets out to 2021. They need to start to think if we are going to deliver X number of units in 2021, we need to get through the construction and the planning, but before we ever get there we need the land. They are actually getting into that space, so it is a much more structured and forward-looking arrangement. If there was a need for land and if it was available at an appropriate price, subject to the local authority's capacity to be able to service it, we would approve it

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