Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 December 2022

Committee on Public Petitions

Public Petition on Housing and Homelessness in County Kildare: Kildare County Council

Mr. David Creighton:

As I said, we have just launched the Part 8 planning application for that phase of works. That application will probably come before the members of Kildare-Newbridge municipal district around March. Once we get a successful outcome from that, the intention would be to go out to tender by the end of 2023. As we are dealing with both occupied and vacant units as well as with the need to demolish a certain number of units within the centre of the scheme, the remedial works scheme is planned over five different mini-phases within the contract. In order to decant from existing units, we need to refurbish vacant units and in order to decant from units that are to be demolished, we need to refurbish existing units.

This happens over roughly five phases. We reckon it will take approximately 18 months in total. I hope we will be on site at the back end of next year or in early 2024 followed by a construction period of roughly 18 months. That will result in a phased completion. The whole thing will not run out for 18 months.

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