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

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Exactly, and Cairn needs to move on them.

I am down to four minutes now. The next question is for Cairn as well. Some 56% of our investment is in social housing, with 23% in first-time buyers and 10% in infrastructure, which tells its own story. Would it be fair to say that, between the Government and approved housing bodies, we are probably able to address in the main the social housing except perhaps for cost rental and that our focus should be on giving builders the capacity to go after what I would call the commercial house building market? Would that be a reasonable thing to say?

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