Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Urban Regeneration: Discussion

Mr. Dave Dinnigan:

As I said, despite much effort on advertising and promoting the repair and lease scheme, the appetite from the market was not as expected. This changed slightly in the last two weeks when some developers came in to the scheme with multiple units. That looks promising but I do not want to talk about something that has not come to fruition yet. However, there seems to be a bit of a change there. We saw that the buy and renew scheme seemed to be the most successful pathway for us. For this reason, significant resources were directed at that scheme which is where the viable projects came through, and that continues to be the case. We referred to 99 units under that scheme over the next couple of years.