Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Michael Kelleher:
The industry is willing to engage. The only way we will fix this problem is through collaboration. Project Tosaigh is an instrument that is bringing forward either cost rental or affordable units. Likewise, if Croí Cónaithe was modelled a little bit more, it could, as Mr. Gaine said, be part of a backstop. It could provide a Government-backed entity that could backstop a development such that, in the event that individual end users were not there to purchase, the units could go to cost rental. That is a way of delivering mixed tenure, which, as Mr. Gaine said, is what we need to do. The industry is about building and delivering units. We need to build them in cities and we need to build a mix there so that we have rental accommodation for foreign employees who want to come and work in Ireland. We are happy to engage in a collaborative way and build units.
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