Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The O'Devaney Gardens site is valued at €14 million and it will contain a certain number of units, with developers allowed to build 584 such units. That is how I worked it out.

I will speak about the Minister's new proposal for affordable rental units in the limited time I have. His document indicates that in rent pressure zones:

Lands held by local authorities will be brought to market on a competitive tendering basis [to target] middle income private rental households.

The cost of providing rental units will be permanently reduced by lowering the initial investment and development costs for providers ... allowing the rental units to be made available at below market prices without the need for ongoing rental subsidies.

Basically, it will change policy to allow new builds to be rented out without other protections.

There is one piece of council land left in greater Blanchardstown, which is a key homeless black spot. The proposal is for that to be mixed tenure, that is, with a section sold for private housing. That will have a detrimental impact on the people I deal with every day who face homelessness or overcrowding. We will appeal to all parties, including Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin and everybody else, not to allow that to happen.

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