Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will begin with proposal No. 5, which reads as follows:

The Department and Local Authorities carefully examine the interaction between social housing, HAP and affordable cost rental tenancies to ensure the provision of social housing and affordable cost rental accommodation is based on need, that residential developments funded through the Serviced Sites Fund and Cost Rental Shared Equity Loan are sustainable and mixed income communities and that the welcome focus on increasing the provision of affordable cost rental accommodation is not done at the expense the provision of social housing provision.

Is the proposal agreed? Agreed. That rules out the requirement to vote on proposals Nos. 3 and 4. We will now proceed to proposal No. 6 from Deputy Ó Broin, which is very closely aligned to the arguments he has made previously with regard to affordability in proposal No.1. We probably do not need to have a debate-----

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