Rent pressure zones have 'discouraged' the supply of new homes, Dáil committee told

Cork developer Michael O'Flynn said Housing Commission 'provided a strategic approach which, if adopted, would over the medium term, deal with the serious backlog of over 300,000 homes'. File picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Rent pressure zones are “not a good system” and have “discouraged" the supply of new homes, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Members of the Housing Commission — whose landmark report on recommendations to fix Ireland’s housing crisis was published over 12 months ago — also told the Oireachtas housing committee on Tuesday there had been a “lack of emergency thinking and action” since its report came out.