Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

For the information of the Minister, the political situation in Dublin City Council has moved on from that original land initiative decision. A majority of councillors have supported a motion of the housing strategic policy committee to request that this project is taken out of the land initiative for the purposes of the funding model and that the Department fully funds it through Exchequer or loan finance. It is not the business of the Dáil to decide whether it should be 420 or 300 units as that is for Dublin City Council, the councillors and the local community to decide. What Deputy Joan Collins is arguing - I fully support her - is that this project should be fully State-funded. There are reasons why it is different to the other sites. What we are asking the Minister to consider is direct State funding of whatever the final configuration of the project is, rather than the land initiative, because that would be better for the community as a whole.

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