Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am a big supporter of cost rental housing as is the Government. Cost rental is a new model of housing. It is new to Ireland but not new to other parts of the world. It was initiated by the then Minister, Eoghan Murphy, in the last Government and is being realised by the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, in this Government, with projects in Emmet Road, Shanganagh Castle, Cork, and north County Dublin. We really need to scale it up as much as we can and potentially Project Tosaigh is a way that we can do that. There are a very large number of unactivated planning permissions for apartments and high-density developments in Dublin, Cork and elsewhere, and I would like to see us getting them going, potentially as cost rental housing, ensuring it is available to more people. It will take years and decades to scale up to the level of cost rental housing that we would like, but I think it is the right policy.

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