Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion
9:00 am
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I understand its mandate which was totally misguided. Nonetheless, it is a fact that it has unloaded a vast amount of property, for the most part, at the bottom of the market, with which nothing is happening. According to Mel Reynolds, of the 114,000 houses mentioned, approximately half are local authority houses. The remainder will be provided through NAMA. There are 60,000 acres of zoned land in the ownership of NAMA, on which 60,000 units could be delivered, yet nothing, or very little, is happening on it.