John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This issue was raised in the Committee of Public Accounts a few weeks ago. The Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government appeared and I asked him about the financing of social housing. His response was that the Department is actively utilising the strategic investment fund to seek private equity and private investors in social housing. This was the response and I think there is no exclusion in doing so. It is actively operating on this basis.

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