Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate
Mr. Cormac O'Rourke:
We hope to deliver approximately 3,000 homes on our existing sites and 5,000 homes in Project Tosaigh. That output should be reported. It is an interesting idea and we will certainly look at whether we can provide a public-facing information portal. Our desire is to be as open and transparent as we can. The only caveat I will enter is that we do not want to be in a position where we prejudice the position of the State with regard to commercial matters. However, we will try, as TII did in my time, to be as open and transparent as possible and we will meet as many people as we can reasonably fit in.
With regard to the counties where there is no pipeline, some counties will benefit from working with us, others will not need our assistance and in some counties the scale will be best dealt with in another way. What we are trying to do is build a delivery capability which delivers at scale. That is what we are trying to build our organisation around, which does not always lend itself to smaller scale operations. We cannot be all things to all people. It is something about which I would need to think further.
As I hope I made clear in some of my earlier remarks, we will work as closely as we can with the local authorities because, ultimately, much of the information repository that we need to act effectively exists in them. Would Mr. Coleman like to add anything to that?
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