Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-17
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Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (FF), Carlow-Kilkenny

Affordable housing regulations require that 70% of the units advertised must be allocated on the basis of priorities. This only leaves 30% of the units for the local authority based on the local criteria. In the last private housing scheme to come on the market in Carlow, 26% of the units were sold to people who were not resident. It meant that because of the criteria the Carlow people did not qualify. Can the criteria be set so that people in the local area who want to buy affordable housing meet the criteria?

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Sitting date: 2022-05-17