Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Anthony Flynn:
In reference to the opening statement, it was indicative of what we have been working on for a number of years in relation to enhancing projects within the O'Connell Street task force area, which does traverse the River Liffey itself. As the Senator is aware, the big scheme that is coming on the south side of the river is College Green. Karl and his team are also working on a public realm plan for Westmoreland Street, D'Olier Street and Aston Quay. We have a lot more coming through; we just did not put it all in the opening statement. With regard to the task force, there are a number of members here today. We have been working diligently and very hard with the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of moving together to implement the ten big moves. We have an action plan. We have a tracker in relation to the action plan showing where every project is. In a long-winded way, I think the Department might make reference to it but we are anticipating an announcement on the URDF funding. I am sure that is going to be imminent. Mr. Hogan may come in on that. As part of that, we believe we are going to get a significant chunk of URDF as per the task force report.
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