Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Catherine Keenan:

As Mr. Curran said, we are delivering a total of 597 homes in Shanganagh, 306 of which will be cost rental, 91 affordable purchase and 200 social housing. We are delivering this in partnership with the LDA. The rents there will be approximately €1,200. I know people would like to get those lower, but if one compares them to the market rents in the area, which are €2,000, it is a considerable difference. We are due to go to tender in April and we will be on site in the latter half of this year. That is 306 cost rental and renting and affordable housing in collaboration with the LDA.

In terms of the Enniskerry Road, Mr. Declan Dunne from Respond Housing Association is present. We are working with Respond Housing Association, Tuath Housing, the Housing Agency and the Housing Finance Agency. That will deliver 50 cost rental homes. They are on site now and almost at completion. They will be completed in autumn this year.

The key point in both of these projects is the collaboration. We have collaborated very well with the approved housing bodies, the Housing Agency and the Housing Finance Agency on Enniskerry Road, and in Shanganagh the LDA is driving that delivery.

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