Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 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
Mr. John McCarthy:
The never-ending list. One issue is that of local authority land debt. We made a number of interventions in that space in 2009 and 2010 to assist local authorities. Subsequently, we no longer had the resources to do that. We are now back in that space. As the social housing programme is building up, we are finding a vehicle to address some of those issues. In a number of local authorities, a significant land debt still remains. We need to work with them on finding ways to look beyond just using those lands for housing, for example, using some of the other funds like the urban regeneration fund to pull together a pool of resources that can unlock those lands and deal with the debt issue.
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