Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion
Mr. Jim Baneham:
I will speak to the open call under CREL scheme. Mr. O'Leary mentioned social housing and that a good proportion of the lending to AHBs is in situations where they buy a site and then engage a contractor to deliver a scheme. For some of those schemes, the developer had achieved planning permission so the AHBs are buying a package. That has not been possible to date with CREL because of the timescales. That type of arrangement, where they have more control over saying-----
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