Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion

Ms Catherine Keenan:

The building was handed over by the owner, but there was a leasing arrangement then with the council for the tenants who came from the housing waiting list. We are looking at similar community homes on the Central Mental Hospital site in Dundrum.

As I said, we have one that we have been actively working on through Part V. We have a very active disability steering group with all of the local providers on that, including St. John of God, which is probably the most prominent one in our area. We are very active in that space. Some 28% of the allocations are given to people with disabilities, which is much higher than the 10% provision.