The chief executive of the National Treasury Management Agency has rejected assertions that the agency is contributing to the housing shortage by not releasing sites that have the potential to deliver thousands of homes.
"But the majority of the portfolio - about 12,000 units - is land that will be post-2025, that will be reliant on land zonings from local authorities as they do their development plans over the next 18 months," he told Morning Ireland. He was speaking as the agency made a final transfer of surplus cash to the exchequer for this year, bringing to €3 billion the total NAMA has transferred to the Exchequer since it was established in late 2009.
Site down the road from me identified for 16 Rapid Build SHD in 2017. Planning April 2018, and today only half finished. Across the road, direct app to Bord Pleanala for 109 apartments made on 24th Sept. Told this morning won't be even looked at until next year.