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:

I do not have a figure but I think the perceived increase in one-off houses might have been due to the reduction in other developments. It was not that the number of one-off units particularly increased. There is a tight control in terms of rural housing policy and then there are environmental and other constraints in certain parts of the county. I do not see it as an issue of rural housing increasing because of a lack of urban housing or instead of urban housing but there was a period where it may have seemed that was where houses were being built.