Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency
Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
There will always be competing interests and competing priorities. To be fair, the objective of a transport company is to provide public transport. I understand that. However, our narrow interest in this discussion and the LDA's responsibility is the provision of social and affordable homes in a timely manner where they are needed. They are needed in the city centre. They were needed five years ago. I will finish now. I appreciate the time and space the Chair has given me. I jotted down the numbers Mr. Coleman gave us. I will not hold him to them exactly, but it would be really helpful to get from the LDA a breakdown of where in the city we can expect to see social and affordable and cost-rental homes in the next five years. I presume the LDA is engaged in the exercise to review the Housing for All targets and that it is contributing to identify ways for the achievement of bigger targets.
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