Leo Varadkar says Government will pick up tab for connecting new estates to water and roads to boost building rates
“At the moment, development levies fall on the developer and ultimately fall on the person buying the home,” he continued.
“We’re changing that now, so for the next couple of years the Government, the public, the taxpayer will cover the cost of that public infrastructure and that will bring down the cost of housing and accelerate the amount of new homes being built.” The infrastructure includes linking new housing estates or apartment blocks to the water, road network or footpath system.“I absolutely know it will be misrepresented that way and presented that way, I totally reject that presentation,” he said.
Mr Varadkar said it was “difficult to say for sure how many additional houses will be built” on top of already forecast rates of between 25,000 and 30,000 homes annually, but that the Government believed the measure would help it reach its targets of 30,000 completions this year.“We see more social housing being developed now than any time since the 1970s.
“But it’s not working fast enough, and that’s because we need to catch up on the really big deficit of housing that we have in Ireland.”
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