Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate)
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
That is one method of delivery. The other one is those sites that are owned by local authorities. The local authority is delivering affordable purchase properties on a large number of sites in the Ballymun area, and I welcome that. I am concerned about the Ballymun shopping centre site, which inevitably will have a significant housing element to it, because the retail will be on the ground floor and we have scope for multiple storeys there. I do not see any development from the local authority side on that. I really think we need to be looking at an alternative vehicle to try to deliver on a site that is really a prime site.
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