Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
9:30 am
Ms Caroline Timmons:
-----a reassessment of the housing need and demand assessment with the new census material the will come later in the year. That will provide us with an overview of the affordability targets. The housing need and demand assessment will be reviewed later in the year. Once that is available to us and once the Economic and Social Research Institute completes its analysis, we will redo the housing need and demand assessment for the entire country. We will then look at any localised affordability challenges. Where local authorities point out specific localised affordability challenges, we consider them. We see what the evidence base looks like for us, and we will have a look at what targets should be set.