Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. John Coleman:
I will answer as best I can. On the housing targets and that drive in the zoning of land, we do not have a role in that per se. However, we informally discuss these items all the time with local authorities, in particular, where there might be opportunities to bring forward land that is serviced or can be serviced and brought forward for housing. An additional thing that will help the LDA is that we are not just focused on State lands. The Senator will have seen from the statement issued by the Department of housing today that the LDA is now mandated quite clearly to focus on accessing private lands as well, which we had been doing indirectly by partnering with developers where they have had stalled sites they could not get delivered. We have stepped in to provide them with the wherewithal to get those delivered and deliver them back to the LDA - the State - as affordable housing. We have quite a lot of capacity to do that. We have also been given a mandate in relation to urban development zones to take those forward and have a plan-led approach to ensure they are serviced. These are areas with large potential that can deliver a large number of homes at scale. That is where the LDA has the main opportunity to make an impact.
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