Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Dermot Mahon:
I think our own figure might have underplayed it. The HNDA figure would have been higher.
That would have been higher. So that would have produced 1,500 of a demand for social housing. Our targets from the Department were 1,235, so we increased our anticipated supply up to that 1,400 figure, to bring it closer to the HNDA figure. If anything, the Department's targets were below the HNDA figure. Our ultimate figure was to bring it closer to that, if that makes sense.