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:
At this stage, approximately 25 of those sites are in the social housing construction programme. An exercise of engagement with the AHB sector was completed in recent weeks and, from memory, a further 17 or 18 sites are about to move into the social housing programme. Everyone accepts that some of the lands were bought with an eye to the longer term. Those will not come into development for the next five years but may do so afterwards. We have all the local authority lands for residential development mapped on the Rebuilding Ireland website, so we can see where they all are. We have a good picture on the extent to which some local authorities have landbanks for immediate and longer term development versus those that may have certain land issues in areas. That forms part of the factors influencing some local authorities to take advantage of turnkey opportunities in areas where they do not have land.
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