Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Further Revised)
Vote 23 - Electoral Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised)
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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No, the targets are set and we need certainty within the targets but they are a baseline. There is no change to what we have asked local authorities to do at the very least. Some of those targets are very challenging. They were not set arbitrarily by me. They were set by my Department and the local authority sector, working together. I expect many local authorities to exceed those targets. We exceeded them in overall delivery last year. We did not exceed it in social housing delivery. It was our first full year of affordable housing delivery. We will have a significant footprint of affordable housing in 2022.