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
There is also a 30% minimum for affordable housing. The aim is to contribute to addressing the housing delivery issues that exist in all of those strands of the housing market. The other aspect in terms of affordability is the serviced sites fund which is designed to support local authorities bringing some of their lands into play for affordable housing. The first round of approvals under that fund were issued in December and there will be another call for proposals under the fund issuing shortly. Initially, it was targeted at the Dublin, greater Dublin, Cork and Galway authorities. We have now asked other authorities to look at the affordability issues in their areas. As such, the second call will be wider once we have completed the analysis of the economic assessments local authorities provide.
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