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

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I have just a few questions and the time will be tight. Rebuilding Ireland is a Government policy which the witnesses are required to carry out. Mr. McCarthy referred earlier to 50,000 houses per year. The all-party Oireachtas committee produced its report in 2016. The No. 1 item in the report in terms of the conclusions was to increase the social housing stock owned by local authorities and AHBs by at least 50,000. That would be a minimum of 10,000 builds per year. In what year will there be 10,000 builds?

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