Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion

Photo of Mary FitzpatrickMary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Okay. That is really reassuring to hear and we encourage everybody to engage with Threshold.

On achieving the target of ending homelessness by 2030, we know about the 90,000 social house builds that are committed to, funded and which the local authorities are obviously gearing up to achieve but in the short term, what are we going to do? Is there sufficient supply there in the short term? The reality is, as well all know, it takes two or three years, at best, to build new homes.

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