Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Patricia Philbin:
At the moment, we have sufficient land bank, but we will have to start considering that now. It comes down to resources. Thankfully, we have six additional capital staff on the administrative side who are being funded by the Department. This is the first time that has happened. A further five are due to come in terms of affordable home delivery. It is extremely challenging to recruit administrative staff, but also technical staff. It comes down to resources. It appears that there is insufficient capacity in the private sector in terms of architects and engineers. Mr. Barrett ran a competition recently and only one architect applied. It comes down to resources.