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:
As I said earlier, our targets are set now for social housing delivery, which is fine, but I do not think we will have affordable targets until we do the analysis I referred to. It is something we will be proactive on because we want to start building affordable housing as soon as possible. There is no question about that and there is no question about our ambition to do that. We have the tools with the serviced sites fund and the new Bill and we are gearing up in terms of extra staff to deliver these units. However, before we set concrete targets, we need to assess the demand and we will work very closely with the Department on that. As soon as we have those targets, we will pass them on to the committee.
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