Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 September 2021

Public Accounts Committee

NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

In terms of Kildare, we have two large sites. We have one in Newbridge and we have one in Celbridge. We are working with the local authority and the Department of Education in the case of the one in Celbridge to provide some school sites on that land and also to submit a comprehensive planning application on it. The land in Newbridge is a very well-located site with housing on all sides of it. At present it is not zoned. It is right beside the town. We will talk to the local authority. It was saying it is part of its plan and that would be absolutely ready to go because all the infrastructure is around it. We are doing that.