Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Walsh:

On the social housing side, there is a resource issue. We are probably maxing out the number of social housing units relative to the resources people have to make it happen. On affordable and cost-rental units, we are in the development phase. Affordable housing is relatively new to us. We have committed specific resources and will be able to run that up, on balance. I do not think we need more. Perhaps in due course there will be an increase. We have to stay with inflation at the minimum in terms of the level of subsidy available. We are only now testing the market in that space in terms of what the demand will be. We need to learn more about that before I can say confidently what we should be doing.

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