Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency

9:30 am

Mr. John Coleman:

Yes, the report was completed in March 2023. It is very comprehensive. It focused on the five cities, that is, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford, as well as five main regional centres. There will be an updated version of that report next year to incorporate more towns throughout the country. That report is completed. For the first time, it identified lands owned by State bodies. It identified the size of them, how many homes could be, in theory, constructed on them and any constraints associated with them. A lot of them have significant infrastructural constraints but some are readily developable. For the first time, the public can see exactly what land is held by the State through its various agencies and bodies. It creates a welcome debate on what the best use of those sites should be.