Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
11:30 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
It has certainly been a few months. The issues have been legal issues around what we can or cannot publish. It would be fair to say we are pretty much there or thereabouts and I would hope that in the next few weeks we should be in a position to be able to complete that piece of work.
The Deputy also mentioned the issue of the cost rental model. There is a commitment on that in the rental strategy. I suppose there are two commitments. On affordable rental, the commitment is to take that forward on a case-by-case basis on individual State land sites where that is appropriate. We are engaging, in particular, with Dublin City Council, around what role it might be able to play in a number of the projects that it has brought forward. There is a broader question around cost rental and its role in the long term, and there is a commitment in the rental strategy that we will do an initial piece of work on that and complete that by the end of the year. That is still our target.