Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage

9:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their attendance. It has been an interesting and informative debate. I will take a slightly different approach or angle to the discussion because I will focus on housing delivery. Up and down my constituency I have people, and young people in particular, who would like to live in or remain in areas in which they have grown up. As a councillor and Deputy, I have felt long-term frustration in dealing with strategic housing applications and other types of housing applications but not seeing that turn into places for such young people to live. That is what I wanted to follow up and I suggest there is a strong role for the Department in that.

In respect of the strategic housing developments, what is the total number of units that have been applied for? How many of those have been granted permission and how many were commenced or built?

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