Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

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

No. I will go through a few questions. Within that there is a target of 500 affordable purchase homes. The number delivered was 323. That is not a new scheme. That scheme, under the name of the serviced sites fund, was introduced in 2019. How has it taken such a long time to get such a small number of affordable purchase homes? I accept that it takes 12 months to build these, and 12 months or so to get through the approval process. We had Covid etc., but it seems like a long time to produce a small number. How confident is Ms Timmons that number is going to start increasing significantly in the next year or two, including this year?

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