Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 14 December 2023
320. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of houses the Land Development Agency intends to make available for occupation in each local authority area in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55977/23]
View answerHousing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum.
In respect of the Land Development Agency's (LDA) work on strategic housing delivery on public land, it is anticipated that the first homes of the Shanganagh development will be delivered in 2024 in partnership with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
Progress will also be made in advancing housing delivery on other local authority partnership sites at the Donore Project (St Teresa’s Gardens); Cromcastle and Cherry Orchard in Dublin City.
Furthermore, in respect of the LDA’s work on housing delivery on vacant or underutilised public land, construction is underway at two sites transferred to the LDA in Cork and Naas and in 2024 it is expected that further progress will be made towards housing delivery on key sites in Galway, Dublin and Cork.
The LDA is also tasked with delivering social and affordable homes both in the shorter-term, through Project Tosaigh, its market engagement initiative to unlock stalled private planning-consented developments, and in the longer-term, assembling strategic land-banks from a mix of State and private lands.
Through Project Tosaigh the LDA is working with local authorities to deliver 5,000 homes by 2026. 2022 saw the first ever affordable housing delivery by the LDA in Dublin, Wicklow, Cork and Waterford, sourced via Project Tosaigh, and further affordable homes are coming on stream this year. I anticipate that the momentum generated by this initial and welcome delivery will be ramped up over 2024 and beyond.
