Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion
Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
That ties into my next question. With a lot of the projects in both witnesses' local authorities there are now much more, larger, more complicated projects where there is a mixture of tenure types. It just seems, however, that delivery is very slow. Earlier in the year a report was carried out about having maybe one single point of contact in the Department when trying to get these projects delivered in a timely fashion. What is the hold-up? Is it bureaucracy? Is it because the local authorities are dealing with mixed-tenure sites? What can we do, or what can the Department and the Minister do, to help deliver these projects more quickly?
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