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

I have been invited to meet the regeneration team with the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, next week and I look forward to that. Dublin City Council has been supporting the establishment of the Kilmainham-Inchicore network as the primary vehicle for the interface with the local community on this. If a group has a new proposal that might work, I will, of course, be happy to engage with it.

While cost rental has to be something we bring into our rental sector on a massive scale, we need to prove it first. We need to find a few sites, or perhaps one larger site, and prove cost rental. We need to put serious financial backing and firepower behind it and then roll it out on a broader basis across the country over a number of years. There is huge potential for cost rental on some key sites in Dublin. It will hit a number of the targets under Rebuilding Ireland, not just to build more homes but to build communities as well, and also to regenerate parts of the city that have, unfortunately, needed regeneration for far too long.

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