Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services
10:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
There is a process going on at the moment between the Housing Agency and all local authorities, to build up that fresh and up-to-date picture and to map all the sites across the local authority system that are available for social housing. The key will be to match those sites to the development of projects. If a project can go forward on a site, that provides a vehicle for addressing any outstanding loan on the site and delivering on the social housing strategy at the same time.