Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Cost rental is something I and the Deputy met our Green Party colleagues in Vienna to discuss, because the Vienna model of cost rental is the one that is held up as an example. Mr. Jordan said there was some interest from local authorities in cost rental and Mr. O'Leary said the agency does not canvass them for this. Why not? Do the CEOs meet the chief executives and directors of services at some level to explain what cost rental is, what local authorities can do, the finance available for it and what it would produce? I sense a lack of understanding of what cost rental is. We have a lot of work to do to promote cost rental, to show what it is and what it can deliver, the numbers we can deliver and what it can do for housing needs. Do we or somebody else need to engage more with local authorities?