Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Frank Curran:

We are confident that we can deliver the 47,600 dwellings.

As I said, there was a lot of consultation with each local authority on the targets that will be set out in the housing delivery action plans. There is now a range of mechanisms in place, specifically direct build, PPPs, advance purchase, mixed tenure and Part Vs. We are recruiting 200 extra staff, including engineers, architects, quantity surveyors, etc. A full review of land is being carried out in conjunction with Irish Water. I will not go through the figures again but there is a very strong pipeline of approximately 23,000 dwellings right now. Of those, 11,000 are under construction.