Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion

Mr. Frank Curran:

Again, we have to comply with the public spending code. Every public sector project does. It has been very helpful that we have got approval for extra staff. I know there are challenges in recruiting, but we are getting there. We have got the staff up to speed now. Something that we will need to look at and on which the Department can help is acquisition of land into the future. We need to plan now for the next seven-year to ten-year period, go out there and buy land. Traditionally, when local authorities buy land, which is very expensive in the likes of Dún Laoghaire, we get recoupment only when the houses, the units, are complete. If we could buy land and bring that recoupment of the money back earlier in the five-stage process, that would help in that we would have a supply of land and then could plan the infrastructure into the future.

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