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

Mr. Feargal ? Coigligh:

I think we are confident that will happen. There are different indications. Different organisations have given projections somewhat lower than that. There are some contradictory figures in terms of commencement slowdown and planning permissions slowdown. On the other hand, there was an interesting report this morning that BNP Paribas is reporting construction companies are hiring more workers and order books are filling up, which would suggest that actually they will deliver. There is a bank of permissions there that are utilisable. Although there was a slowdown in commencements and permissions, there was actually an existing bank of permissions that can be activated so we would be confident that we would match the figures this year.

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