Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Discussion
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
My two final questions are specifically on St. Michael's. If we take the Housing Agency's definition of affordability, which is about one third of net disposable income, that would mean that for the cohort of people we are talking about entry rents would need to be somewhere in the region of €700 and €900 a month. Do the witnesses share that view and would it be their desire to try to move the rents down into that range? Would the witnesses also be able to give us some more detail about the planned consultation with the wider community, once the work of the design team is complete? I presume that will be sometime around September.
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