Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will take an opportunity to speak and will let Deputy Gould in for a moment at the end. To reflect Deputy O'Donoghue's point it is important that we say to anyone looking in who is from a town or village that a huge number of the schemes available in Housing for All are available in towns and villages. I refer to schemes such as Croí Cónaithe, the affordable rental and affordable purchase schemes, the Part 5 increase from 10% to 20%, the first home scheme and the owner-occupier guarantee. He made a very valid point, however, that all of that is based on infrastructure. I join many of my colleagues in Fianna Fáil in being really perplexed at some of the requests from the OPLA to reduce or de-zone land at this time based on capacity, as opposed to working the other way and putting capacity in. I have two questions on waiting lists. What demand is there for social housing for one, two and three-bedrooms by percentage? Do the witnesses have those figures?

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