Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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On the land aggregation scheme, 736 houses have been delivered over 13 years. That works out at 56 houses per annum. Under proposals for development, the Department is talking about 12 sites. Why is it taking so long to get proposals for development? In fairness, 13 years is a long time to get to that point. If a private developer acquires land and does not have it developed 13 years later, that developer carries the cost of borrowing to buy the land. Why did what we are talking about take so long to come to the stage it is now at?