Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
12:10 pm
Ms Geraldine Tallon:
We have had a difficult experience in the area of affordable housing. We had a strong focus on increasing supply of affordable housing in the first half of the decade, up to 2007. At the time we crashed we had built up a supply in that area so that by the end of 2009 there were 3,700 unsold affordable houses on the books with local authorities.