Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency

Mr. John Coleman:

I will hand over to my colleague, Mr. O'Neill, in a moment. Our approach is to go above and beyond what might be seen elsewhere. We believe we have a duty to do that as a public body. I have lost count of the multiple positive engagements we have had with local authority members and communities in respect of Shanganagh. We are also very deep into a consultation exercise in relation to Dundrum. We appreciate people will have issues. Our job is to deliver dense development in city areas, and many people will have concerns around that. We must work with them. We are never going to be alleviate all of them. We are trying to provide a lot of homes about which people will have many concerns. We are never going to be able to alleviate them, but we can take account as best we can of people's concerns and of some of the ideas and needs they have, without compromising our ability ultimately to deliver affordable homes, which is why we are here. My colleague, Mr. O'Neill will elaborate further on that.

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