Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed)
John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Of course. Last week, at our meeting with the Housing Agency and Housing Finance Agency, we had a discussion on cost-rental accommodation. Ms Loftus may disagree with them but I shared their opinion that the AHB sector does not have the capacity to be the sole provider of cost rental on the scale required. If we are to get to the ambitious numbers to which Ms Loftus referred, beyond the targets set in Housing for All, we must, of course, look to the AHB sector but we must also look at other models and mechanisms within that which are provided for in the legislation. Does Ms Loftus agree with that?
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