Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Dr. Conor O'Toole:
I echo that. While I do not know the details of the proposal the Deputy is talking about, where there is a stock of assets that is not being used productively and we can find a way to channel it into a sector that has major infrastructural and supply deficits, and where the financing requirements will be really large, not only to build the houses but to retrofit housing stock for the energy efficient requirements and to make all the complementary investments on the infrastructure side, if we can use our savings better to get into those investments, then it is certainly a proposal worth thinking about.