Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities.

4:30 pm

Mr. Graham Doyle:

The are, obviously, viability issues out there with regard to the costs of delivery and the volume of units or apartment blocks versus, for example, a three bedroom semi-detached house. The Government is seeking ways to try to address that. For example, it is looking at issues such as the affordability scheme that we are working our way through. The committee will see more of that in the coming couple of months.