Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Affordable Housing: Discussion

Mr. Brendan Kenny:

On the mix, schemes such as that on Oscar Traynor Road and the O'Devaney Gardens scheme for which we will be announcing a developer in the coming weeks are 50% private, 30% social and 20% affordable. In St. Michael's estate in Inchicore it is 70% cost rental and 30% social. We are using various models. If land costs are thrown into the pot, it is just not affordable. We work very well with NAMA and took everything it wanted to give us a few years ago, except for two small schemes and we had reasons for not taking them. As Mr. Keegan stated, we very much welcome the Land Development Agency because we have limited land available and it may have the potential to tap into the other lands referenced by the Senator.

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