Ms Caroline Timmons:

I am happy to take that one. Project Tosaigh is an initiative around activating planning permissions that have not been commenced. The Cathaoirleach will have seen set out in Housing for All a figure of approximately 70,000 nationally, with 40,000 of these in Dublin. The most recent figures show that, since the publication of Housing for All and by the end of the third quarter of 2022, the figure for Dublin has grown to approximately 48,000. We are still in that space of unactivated planning permissions. You will see various reports, such as the Mitchell McDermott report, coming out telling us that, in many cases, it is about viability and bridging that gap.

Croí Cónaithe cities is doing some of that. It is important that someone in the market is looking to activate product, especially to bring it in for affordable use, and Project Tosaigh is doing that. It is working with developers who can bring forward sites to move them on for affordable housing. We have a target of 5,000 units for that. The LDA has a pipeline. It announced approximately 800 units this year and is expecting to deliver that. It is important to see that coming forward. We are also trying to bring forward measures other than Croí Cónaithe cities to look at viability. We will also look at viability measures for cost-rental housing and activating the build-to-rent permissions that may be sitting out there without investment at the moment. The Government has asked us to consider proposals for bringing those forward.