Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Housing for All: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----unable to access social housing or market housing. These were households on incomes between €50,000 and €70,000. However, in terms of the affordable housing fund, the cost-rental equity loan and the LDA, increasingly, those people are being priced out of the Department's schemes. Is the Minister concerned at the rising cost of affordable rents and affordable purchase prices under the schemes? Does he have any plans to try to bring those costs down so people, or households, who are on gross incomes of €50,000 to €70,000 can get access to these homes because right now they cannot?

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