Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer

9:30 am

Mr. Jim Baneham:

I will give an update on that. The land aggregation scheme involved the transfer of 73 sites at the outset of the process. At the moment, we have transferred 13 of those either to local authorities or AHBs. There are also some school transfers to the Department of Education. To date, 676 dwellings have been built on lands that were land aggregation lands. A small number - I think it is only 18 - are currently on site, but planning has been granted for a further 444 and another 1,300 or so are in the planning process. Quite a large chunk of that is with the Land Development Agency, LDA, and the strategic housing delivery planning system. There is bit of delay on that but, taking it altogether, we are looking at approximately 2,500 dwellings at present in terms of delivery that has already occurred, what is in the pipeline and what is planned. There is probably capacity for further houses beyond that as well.

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