Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Urban Regeneration: Discussion

Mr. Paul Clegg:

Let us say we did acquire a site similar to that. We would basically be acquiring a derelict site. When it comes to developing the site, the whole disposal process, as it is set at the moment, would be that this site could only be used for social housing. Even though a site like that might be best used for some sort of mixed-use development, in the main any public sites that we have are used for public housing. Basically, in that instance, we would be acquiring a developed site that we could not, in effect, develop for its best use. That could be mixed use or it could be entirely commercial. It is best left to the private sector to acquire and develop that site.