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

Photo of Cormac DevlinCormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the briefing material they have supplied.

I wish to start with Mr. Jordan regarding the Housing Agency and the annual report. Mr. Jordan spoke of 73 sites that were inherited - let us call it that. He said 25 sites were refused during that process. I heard what he said that some may be sold. If they are not suitable for social housing - presumably they were not zoned, which perhaps was one of the criteria as to why they were not accepted - is it up to the local authority, ultimately, to sell them? Does the Housing Agency have a process for that? As they have been refused, do they go back to the authority for it to make a decision?