Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Frank Curran:
Affordable housing is coming on stream now with the serviced sites fund. I mentioned that earlier. A total of €188 million has been approved and 4,000 units will come from that. They are starting this year. Affordable housing is coming on stream. This year, it is coming on stream in Boherboy in Cork city and Lusk. With regard to the exercise to assess the amount of land, I mentioned that we have a target of 10,000 social housing units a year for the next five years, along with 2,500 leasing units. Mr. Taaffe of the housing delivery co-ordination office is involved in the detailed land mapping exercise and I will hand over to him.
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