Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

It is not quite finalised at the moment. In the first phase of resourcing local authorities, we asked the non-Dublin authorities to resource their social housing delivery teams. Subsequent to that, we asked the Dublin authorities to give us their social and affordable request list, which is being compiled at the moment. When looking at social and affordable across the four Dublin council areas, that will be greater than 50. The reason we did it that way is because much of Dublin county delivery comes via mixed tenure scheme. It is not a separate delivery stream. The staff has to be considered in conjunction. We are also looking at affordable delivery teams for the non-Dublin authorities, such as the Corks, the Meaths and the Kildares of this world. That process is likely to yield a ballpark figure of somewhere between perhaps 70 and 90 staff for local authorities for affordable delivery. The 50 would be for social housing, and there would be affordable staff on top that again for affordable delivery in the four Dublin authorities.

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