Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Pat Daly:

The target is over a six-year programme. We have about 18 ha zoned within the current development plan and I think there are approximately 1,400 ha zoned beyond that, between public and private. We are working hard with developers on both the public and private programmes to make it happen. We are comfortably within the cycle of our housing programme, with an average of about 550 houses delivered per year. We are comfortable we can achieve the target. Obviously, there is a pressure point with some of the landholdings in Limerick. We need more land and we are identifying land and talking to the Department about it. However, we have come through the development plan process which identified where land is zoned and where it is unencumbered such that we can get into it straight away. We are looking at the private parcels that are becoming available. We have people working closely with the market to look at the landholdings to make delivery much easier and more streamlined.

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