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:

There is, and I am not sure I got all those points. I am certainly not going to contradict the Minister in respect of using being 100% in respect of the social and affordable housing aspect. As I said earlier, we will do what the Government asks us to do but our current mandate is for 100% of land to be used for social and affordable housing and I am very comfortable with that. Regarding cost rental, and the operation of that facet of our endeavours, how we will do that is not a matter that has yet come to the board. As a modus operandi, I will be looking again at how TII has done things. The operation of cost rental should either be done by the local authority or by an AHB. I am not sure there is great merit in the LDA duplicating that capability. It would, essentially, involve building a platform from scratch when one already exists in two places. That does not seem to me to be a sensible way of going about things. From that perspective, regarding cost rental, I foresee us working closely with a local authority or an AHB. The AHBs have done a great deal of good work over a long time and they have a great deal of expertise in this area. I know many people in that sector.

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