Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On social housing, the breakdown should be there in the report published the other day. In 2019, we are going to achieve - there or thereabouts - our target for more than 6,000 being built as part of the increase of 10,000 in stock. The impression with turnkeys is that the local authority or the housing body buys a completed housing estate and it is just a question of handing over the keys. Often the houses have not been built, however. The local authority wants houses in a particular area but it does not own the land.

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