Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
Chapter 11 - Social Housing
Chapter 12 - Land Aggregation Scheme.
Chapter 13 - Pyrite Remediation Scheme.
11:30 am
Mr. John O'Connor:
I agree with the Chairman that the focus has been on delivery of social housing on those lands. Now with the reintroduction of affordable purchase housing and cost rental housing, we have those options on the site and we are pushing them. One example I showed there was in Stepaside and there are 50 cost rental units there. On the Devoy Barracks site in Naas, the requirements the Housing Agency, in conjunction with the Department, has set for that land is for a significant amount of cost rental and we are talking with-----