Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Is there any issue there with regard to State ownership? Much of this started in 1991 so the first stream of housing from that process will be coming into the ownership of the approved housing bodies. Since 1991 these schemes have been funded primarily through State funding, yet the approved housing bodies will end up owning the properties. While it might be illogical that they could decide to do something else with them or one might say that would not happen, essentially the State has no guarantee that these properties will remain as social housing. Would that be a concern? Has Dr. McManus's organisation explored or examined that or is it aware of any debate on this?
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