Mr. Daniel McLoughlin:

There is a lot in that. On the Deputy's first point, I thank her for acknowledging the work of the team and the councillors in south Dublin. Good work is being done.

I can reassure the Deputy on the accompanying infrastructure piece. Apart from the Celbridge link road the Deputy mentioned, she will be aware that in Adamstown we are developing two parks at scale. One at Tandy's Lane opened last year at the cost of €5 million and one at Airlie Park will open in January 2023 at a cost of €5 million. Lucan leisure centre that cost €14 million will hopefully open next year. There is much advance and retrospective provision of playing grounds and team spaces.

In fairness, the Department of Education has stepped up with us on site acquisition from us and other sites regarding the development of schools. There are five crèches within the Adamstown strategic development zone, SDZ, where there are currently 3,500 homes. We have our arms around that. I appreciate that there was a hiatus in the Deputy's backyard. There was an expansive growth area in Lucan in the Celtic tiger era that hit a brick wall in 2008 and then there was a delay. We are retrofitting a lot of stuff there in the past five years and that is going pretty well.

On the mixed tenure piece, we have about 50:50 social and affordable housing in Kilcarbery, which has 1,000 homes. The Deputy will be well familiar that when we first tendered, the affordable housing schemes were not in place. Since they have come in we have been able to bring on board though CREL and other schemes some affordable initiatives to rebalance that into a 50:50 situation. Clonburris is 40% social, 30% affordable and 30% cost-rental across 2,500 homes. We are getting the mix pretty right.

I will now answer on the expressions of interest piece on affordable housing and whether the numbers are high enough. Apart from the 10% ordinarily in play, as part of the URDF, which does not get spoken about often, we got €20 million in funding in Adamstown. Part of that proposition was an agreement for the sale of 2,000 homes, 1,100 of which had to be below a certain price point. That has been achieved in the past three years. As part of the Kilcarbery proposition, in the absence of an affordable scheme, we built in 50 homes discounted to the market. As part of the URDF proposition in Clonburris we are factoring in an additional 10% affordable on top of the statutory requirement, which is an additional 600 affordable homes. In those initiatives alone, the over and above proposition beyond the statutory 10% is quite significant.

We are still exploring options and we are waiting to see whether we will have an affordable cost-rental development ourselves that has just come through tender in Belgard, Tallaght. That will be important to us in assessing where that opportunity is at going forward and how we might make that work with assistance from the Department and if we can make it work, how it might be replicated in other locations. I thank the Deputy,