Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Richard O'DonoghueRichard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are plenty of business people in Cork who want to provide accommodation for their staff, but they have been brought under the rule that they need to have a certain amount of social housing. If they are building a block of apartments for staff, they still need to build social housing units. If a person wanted to build 20 units for staff, those staff who otherwise would be on the housing list could then be taken off the housing list. Would it not make sense that if somebody had a business case where they want to build 20 apartments for their staff only, they should be allowed to do it?

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