Ms Caroline Timmons:

Both Ms Stapleton and I sit on the Dublin housing delivery group which meets monthly. It also has regular engagements with the Minister. Last year, the group was instrumental in bringing forward some reports to both the Minister and Housing for All oversight groups on changes that needed to be made, particularly on the affordable front, to enable housing to be brought forward, particularly apartments. At that point, a full subsidy of €100,000 was our limit. The group was influential in having that increased to €150,000 and with regard to the changes to the CREL scheme as well. It is certainly working on that.

More recently, the group has been looking very closely at uncommenced planning permissions and has an ongoing project monitoring those sites to let us see where they are and what measures may need to be activated in that respect. We are working very closely on the mixed tenure sites with the group as well and on AHB cost-rental housing coming forward. In the past while, the group has been working with AHBs to see what cost-rental they want to bring forward under CREL in a particular area and what can be done to assist them with that. The group is very much working with the Department on all of those measures. It is a very productive group.