Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
Chapter 11 - Social Housing
Chapter 12 - Land Aggregation Scheme.
Chapter 13 - Pyrite Remediation Scheme.

11:30 am

Mr. John O'Connor:

On the lands that were bought, the loans were cleared. The value has gone down. That would be the same for nearly all lands bought during that period. On using the lands, it takes time to come up with plans, to develop them. Our first focus was on getting the sites, having them transferred and putting plans in place to develop them. The smaller sites have been used first. At the end of 2019, there were approximately 100. That has increased to well over 200. Very quickly next year up to 900 will be delivered, so delivery in respect of those sites is accelerating.

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