Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Unlocking Barriers to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Aidan Culhane:

I will just answer the Deputy's question on the delays on the social rental side, which were certainly an issue for some organisations in the latter part of last year and into this year. My organisation did not experience them but others in the Housing Alliance did. They have substantially gone away in terms of social housing. I am going to hand over to Mr. O'Gorman on the mixed tenure one. The social housing approval is coming through but the cost rental may be delayed and because in a mixed-tenure scheme both sets of approvals are needed to commence, those delays are continuing. That is a problem. As Mr. O'Gorman alluded to in the opening statement, there needs to be a single-stage process where a whole scheme can be approved. Whether we are partnering with a developer or doing it ourselves we cannot start until all the approvals are through, especially with apartments because obviously you cannot start a scheme without knowing you are going to be able to finish it.

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