Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Kevin Kelly:
It is not about infrastructure. It should not have an extant planning permission if there is an infrastructural deficit. What we have seen in a number of counties is probably a reluctance by developers to bring forward sites that they had permission on, perhaps for various reasons including cost. That is borne out by the number of developers who had sites and want to engage with local authorities to bring forward this land for development under social housing programmes. We engaged with developers on the various options and schemes that are available in order to try and coax some of those forward for development but with limited success to date.