Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the active management of local authority lands, the Rebuilding Ireland map was published in April this year. There is potential, if one looks at those lands and where they are located, for 50,000 new homes, which is significant. It is a very important part of what we want to deliver. We facilitated a workshop in the Department on last Monday, 10 July, to get the ball rolling with local authorities. I have requested that the plans for what we will do with that work to be prepared by the end of September.

There are models out there for affordable buy and affordable rent that are being examined at the moment. One particular model involves co-operative housing and an affordable buy scheme. I had the privilege to hand the keys over to a new family moving into one of those homes out in Ballymun earlier this week. A total of 47 or 49 units will be delivered at an affordable cost to people who can get a mortgage and move into that area. The cost is about €170,000 for a three-bedroom house, which is graded A2. There are schemes and models that are working. My job as part of the review is to bring those schemes together and drive them from the Department. If a scheme is working, we have to see if it can be applied and rolled out across the country.

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