Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Housing and Rental Market: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Richard Shakespeare:

No, what Mr. Kelly says is perfectly correct. The procedure would be to come back and seek a change of use if it was not permitted previously. Off hand, I do not know how much is potentially available during the summer because the way in which many of these have been built in the past has been using public private partnership between the university and an investor and they sell on the downtime, between the middle of May to September, quite heavily so I do not know how much of that would be available.

They sell quite heavily in the downtime between the middle of May and early September. I do not know how much is available but if they wanted to maximise it they would need to-----