Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 24 June 2021
38. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an additional €50,000 departmental subsidy per unit to the cost-rental programme at St. Michael’s Estate, Inchicore will be committed to. [33865/21]
View answerUnder the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), since its inception, the maximum funding available towards the cost of facilitating infrastructure is €50,000 per affordable home delivered.
However, the Programme for Government 'Our Shared Future' contained a commitment to improve the delivery of affordable homes and to extend the SSF in this regard. To inform a review process of the scheme, I met with the Chief Executives of local authorities earlier this year and sought their views in relation to amendments that may improve the capacity to deliver more affordable homes in a shorter time-frame. It is my intention to use the experience to date of local authorities, along with that of my own Department in managing the SSF, to bring forward any amendments to the scheme's operation I consider necessary.
Proposals to amend the SSF are well advanced and officials from my Department continue to liaise with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in this regard. I expect that amendments to the Scheme will be announced in the coming weeks.
