Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association

2:00 am

Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

At the moment, they are both categorised under the social housing investment programme, SHIP. We call them SHIP turnkey, which is where a developer comes with the land and, most likely, the planning permission and builds them on its own land. SHIP construction can be employer-design construction, so we design it and the contractor builds it, or it can be design and build. That falls under the general SHIP, which is local authority own builds on their own lands.