Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed)

Photo of Cian O'CallaghanCian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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I thank the Chair. I also thank the Ministers and officials for coming in. I have a number of questions so I will give the Minister plenty of time to respond but I will want to come in for more questions. If I am cutting the Minister off at some point, that is why am doing that.

First, on the issue of the development levies, the Minister states that he wants the savings to be passed on and that these reductions in cost will passed on. How and what safeguards are there to ensure that the savings will be passed on to individual buyers? Are there any safeguards, guarantees or structures in place to ensure that?