Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency

Ms Maria Graham:

Yes. We focus on getting the best corporate form that will facilitate that. I will use the phrase "optimal usage"; that we make the best use of it. We are focused on those components knowing that elsewhere there are decisions to be made by others around the Government accounting components. We have tried to look at all of the trends in that regard, issues around state aid, what we have learned from the portfolio of lands we have and delivery today, to come up with a range of objects that we feel will succeed. That is what we will be proposing that the Oireachtas would pass, ultimately, in a Bill to establish this Land Development Agency. At some point, those accounting decisions will be made and obviously Governments decide what the implications of those accounting decisions are in a wider budgetary context. I am not sure whether that fully answers the question but I appreciate that there is an unknown out there.

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