Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency

Mr. Phelim O'Neill:

I thank Mr. Coleman and the Senator. On St. Teresa's Gardens, we successfully got planning permission there and we are already out to tender for the delivery of the 540 homes, which are split between social and cost rental. The Senator will be aware the boxing club is still in active occupation of the building on Donore Avenue. The plan is that the boxing club will be decanted into the newly developed St. Teresa's Gardens units. We would hope to be on site with St. Teresa's Gardens at the back end of this year, and once the boxing club is decanted into the new space that will be provided to it within that development, the pitch will be in a position to be delivered at that stage. We are in close-----