Main Points Of The Plan

Establishment of a Strategic Response Team to co-ordinate four-year programme aimed at relieving the housing crisis.

Establishment of a Strategic Response Team to co-ordinate four-year programme aimed at relieving the housing crisis.

Fast-tracking of all planning applications for new housing so that they are decided within the statutory two-month period.

Priority investment in a range of water, sewerage and road schemes to facilitate the construction of 66,000 new homes.

Review of the Eastern Health Board's private residential subsidy scheme, now costing the Exchequer £40 million a year.

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Setting up a joint unit by the four local authorities to acquire lands for the development of social and affordable housing.

Encourage development by housing associations, with 50 per cent open to people who are not on the waiting lists.

Draw up inventories of lands in the ownership of public bodies with a view to releasing it for affordable housing schemes.

Introduce incentives to encourage elderly people living in large homes to relocate to mixed sheltered housing developments.

Impose a levy on zoned land to induce its release and also re-examine the need for other measures to control land prices.

Press the Government to recognise that Dublin's future prosperity is `wholly dependent' on having a proper transport system.