Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022
679. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details on the Public Private Partnership schemes that are being considered by his Department for County Wicklow; if he will provide details of the PPP schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40396/22]
View answerSocial Housing Public Private Partnership (PPP) represents an additional strand of delivery in order to increase the supply of social housing.
In terms of progress to date, construction was completed on two PPP bundles (Bundles 1 and 2) in 2021 and these new homes are now fully tenanted. Bundle 1 delivered 534 houses and apartments across six sites in Dublin, Kildare, Louth and Wicklow in 2020 and 2021. Bundle 2 delivered 465 homes in 2021 across eight sites in Cork, Clare, Galway, Kildare, Roscommon and Waterford.
All bundles are being delivered through the ‘availability’-based PPP model, in which a private sector company designs, builds, finances and maintains the social housing developments in return for a monthly unitary payment from the State for 25 years.
The next PPP bundle to be procured (Bundle 3), will deliver approximately 480 new social houses and apartments across six sites in Dublin, Kildare, Sligo and Wicklow. Planning permissions have been obtained for a number of these sites, including for the Wicklow site which is located at Blessington and which will deliver 106 social houses.
I recently launched Bundles 4 and 5 of the Programme, which will deliver a further 1,530 units over 20 sites in Dublin, Kildare Louth and Wicklow. Following a detailed assessment by the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA), the Housing Delivery Co-ordination Office (HDCO) and my Department, the sites selected for inclusion in Bundle 5 include sites in Greystones and Bray. These sites will deliver a total of 200 social units with affordable housing being provided on other parts of both sites . Details of all the PPP schemes in Wicklow are outlined in the following table:
|
Scheme location |
Bundle |
No. of Units |
Status |
|
Convent Lands, Wicklow Town |
1 |
51 |
Delivered in 2020 |
|
Burgage More, Blessington |
3 |
106 |
Planning permission granted. |
|
Burnaby, Greystones |
5 |
80 |
Design, development and planning processes to be commenced. Unit numbers subject to these processes |
|
Rehills, Bray |
5 |
120 |
As above |
|
Total Units |
357* |
*The total number of units is subject to the design, development and planning processes at the Burnaby, Greystones and Rehills, Bray sites.
In accordance with the commitment under Housing for All, my Department will increase the use of PPPs to deliver social housing. My Department is actively working with relevant stakeholders including the NDFA, the HDCO, and relevant local authorities on the development of further bundles, and it is open to Wicklow County Council to submit further sites for consideration as part of future bundles.
