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:
It is substantially up to the providers. In trying to encourage them to keep rents as low as possible, one of the things that is apparent in the current system is that although it is proven as a concept, it is very early days. All the data for, say, the management and maintenance of properties is not cost rental data but it is social housing data because that is the only data they have to rely on. If there is a difference, and it is yet to be seen if there will be a difference in those aspects, it has not materialised yet. In terms of the way they are approaching it, they are using the knowledge they have. Over time, I expect that to change. The way they go about designing schemes will probably change as well. It is still very early days at the moment.
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