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
Mr. Graham Doyle:
Yes. A huge focus for Ms Stapleton and her team, in particular around social housing, is trying to make it easier for local authorities to deliver. We have a whole range of measures trying to support them to get adequate land in the first place, changing the four-stage process to a one-stage process, which significantly helps them to speed up their delivery, and trying to provide additional resourcing. There are 250 new posts gone in.