Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 June 2021

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Boyd Barrett will be glad to hear that I will be very brief so he will be back in in a minute. I think everybody here welcomes the ESRI report. We all agree we need to put money into housing, but the reality is that we have the LDA Bill and the Affordable Housing Bill. That is the mechanism to resolve the housing issues we have, backed up by increased investment by the Government. This committee can become very polarised but I think everybody here agrees that we need to solve the housing crisis. The LDA Bill and the Affordable Housing Bill are two key mechanisms in that, but I agree with and support what the ESRI says in that we need additional investment.

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