Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites
9:30 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
There is no argument from this side of the table that we want to see local authority direct build projects coming forward. As the Deputy said, we need everything. That is absolutely the case. We have been focusing hugely on this. We are seeing some movement, but we are not seeing enough. We bring local authorities in. For example, one of our working streams under Housing for All is the public service delivery working group. We bring in local authorities or sample local authorities in some of the bigger ones into that. As they show us their programmes and talk about the issues, we can see that over the last number of years since Housing for All was brought about, they are now trying to build up those projects. We can see that it is sort of back-ended delivery, which is not exactly what we want to see, but at least it looks to us like the houses are coming. They have been building up to that. It has not been as quick as we would like. Some local authorities have done very well. Others have certain challenges they are trying to work with us to overcome. However, there is absolute focus on trying to get local authority direct build up.
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