Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. John-Mark McCafferty:

Activating all possible avenues for supply is key. There was the recent league table, as it were, of performance by local authorities in respect of delivery of social housing. Some large urban local authorities did not come out very well in that regard.

For us, there is no single silver bullet. Obviously, supply is key. I mentioned the provision of social housing through either the local authorities or the approved housing bodies, the ramping up of cost rental and the tackling of dereliction and vacancy. By the way, that last does requires taxation on the other side rather than carrot. It requires the stick because very little is happening on dereliction.

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