Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 September 2018

Public Accounts Committee

National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

We have a good relationship with local authorities. Our in-house planning team meets them to discuss, for example, key sites over which we have security and that are within their remit. Most local authorities want housing in their areas. If those areas have been zoned as residential, local authorities will try to work with us to resolve issues. Strange things have happened in some local authority areas, for example, an access issue. We have been able to work with them on resolving these. Authorities probably take longer than they should sometimes, but they have their own processes, which they-----