Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I accept that. I will ask my final question because I am almost out of time. On the affordable target for Dublin City Council, between it, the approved housing bodies and the LDA, the figure is 4,000 affordable homes to 2026, or 800 homes a year, although they will not get to them until 2024 or 2025. The figure for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is 1,549. Given the affordability challenges in both local authorities, will that come anywhere close to having an effect on the number of affordable homes that are needed? In both cases, the targets are significantly lower than the councils’ HNDA assessments. That is not a criticism, but it is a small number even if those targets are met. That is a fair assumption, is it not?
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