Cianan Brennan: Report from Land Development Agency only highlights its toothlessness

The new report from the Land Development Agency is full of lofty ideals but short on demonstrable plans for delivering housing, writes Cianan Brennan

The agency has suggested roughly €2bn would need to be spent turning Tivoli Industrial Estate in Cork into 6,500 houses over the next two decades. Picture: David Creedon

The first feeling that one experiences, having read the newly published Land Development Agency report on public lands which could be used to provide housing, is one of acute disappointment at what can actually be done and how long it will take to achieve even that.

The second is the impression that the State may have got us into this housing mess, but the chances of the State being able to get us back out of it are slim at best.