Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed)
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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I agree with the Senator, those are two separate things. The extended approval process definitely needs to be looked at and sorting it out is one of the keys to sorting out the issues around social housing. The funding of maintenance and management of social housing stock must also be addressed. There are some proposals for doing that in the programme for Government. We are heading into some controversial areas around differential rents, national uniformity and so forth.