Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency
John Cummins (Fine Gael)
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I will follow on from where I left off on Kilbarry. I made a point about the visibility of the LDA in the context of that site. I know the LDA is involved in that site but if you asked anyone, other than people who are potentially in the process of buying in that scheme, nobody would know that the LDA is involved in it. There is no signage up on the site.
The first thing any developer does when it is developing a site is say "there are houses for sale here". There are no signs up on the site and there are none on Six Cross Roads, which has thousands of cars passing every day. That is a simple thing. I raised this previously and as it is still not the case in January 2024, will the LDA commit to putting up that signage? Will these properties be put on daft.ie? Will the LDA undertake an educational marketing campaign on local radio to tell people what they have to do to purchase one of these homes? They are three very reasonable suggestions. Will the LDA commit to doing those?