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 John CumminsJohn Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As have I. I agree 100%. There is no question but that some developments that might have started with 20 or 30 units would have then, in subsequent years, gone to another 20 or 30 units and a subsequent 20 or 30 have brought forward 100 of them together, which has driven the data and ultimately homes for people, because commencements become completions.

The Minister might recall that about two years ago, we introduced really good measures on which I worked closely with him in relation to the commercial to residential exemption from planning. We included former public houses in this. I have not seen the data for 2023 published yet. The early data for 2022, which was published in February 2023, showed that about 20% of the conversions under the scheme had been former pubs. Do we have the data for 2023?

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