Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Affordable Housing: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Pat CaseyPat Casey (Fianna Fail)

Okay. I would prefer to see it going even higher again but that is another argument.

I want to go back to both the LDA and the local authorities. Is the figure for Part 5 affordable housing, which was introduced in 2022, in any of the stats put before us today? Is it part of the figures that have been presented today? Regarding the LDA, Mr. Coleman has shown a huge pipeline of work coming through and it is fantastic to see that land acquisition being done but, at the end of the day, it is about the delivery of that housing. We will now be the largest playmaker in this space. How confident is he of delivering the numbers he has purchased since he was with us last, and has the LDA the funding and resources to do that?

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