Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Caroline Curley:
On the affordable side, we have additional land in Limerick in the regeneration area. Unfortunately, the market value of housing there is very low. If we want to produce affordable housing, we will have to seriously increase the subsidy to allow for that. That would change the face of regeneration areas. As I said, where we have serviced land, there is an issue with the current subsidies. I appreciate how lucky we are to be getting that, but if we could get a huge uplift in subsidies, we would be able to deliver an awful lot more houses and ensure a greater mix in those areas.
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