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

Ms ?ine Stapleton:

I might take that. Towards the end of 2022, we provided financing of the order of €94 million to 12 local authorities for a range of sites to which legacy debt was attached. This was conditional on a commitment from those local authorities to accelerated delivery using modern methods of construction on those sites and that delivery would commence before the end of 2024. We expect a number of those sites will commence this year. We are seeing very good engagement by those local authorities and a strong commitment to working with us and working through the modern methods of construction, MMC, process. We see it as an exemplar for the wider sector that there is a commitment from the State to support the use of MMC in developing public housing through this first block of 1,500. We see it as an opportunity for the industry to build up capacity so that, in the future, these methods can be further expanded as a mode of delivery.

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