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

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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That is if we are speaking about a pure local authority site. Different sites will require different solutions.

Senator Murnane O'Connor asked about the local authority list and looking at the discrepancies in the 30 versus 27. Inconsistencies between local authorities need to be looked at. I want to make sure if there is an inconsistency that it is justifiable. Perhaps there does not need to be an inconsistency. The qualifying criteria for rent pressure zones are there in law. New measures may be introduced to rent pressure zones to increase supply that will have a more beneficial impact outside of those zones. Some local authorities are not getting their vacant houses into use. The CPO powers are there and Louth-----