Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have two final questions and, again, if the Minister does not have the answers, it would be great if he could share them with the committee later. Obviously, any increase in capital assistance scheme, CAS, funding is welcome. Moving capital from one area to another to avoid a surrender is valuable. It would be good to know where those extra 600 units are and what kind of CAS accommodations they represent. If the Minister does not have an answer now, a response in writing would be fine.

Likewise, in respect of the €100 million being put into land, it would be useful to know where that land is. I am sure the committee would want to know. From memory, the land that did not make it into the land aggregation scheme was predominantly, although not exclusively, in rural counties and was trickier and more difficult land to deal with, which is why it did not find its way into the scheme. That is not a reason to pay down the local authorities' debts. If that is the land in question, activating it for any kind of building is going to be a challenge. If the Minister does not have that information now, members would appreciate it if a list of these lands could be shared with the committee.

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