Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

If we look at the national planning framework and all the different existing policies, it is about complementing housing delivery with community infrastructure and social infrastructure. We have had significantly increased supports for the development of social infrastructure across the State. If we look back to the last Government, we had one of the biggest interventions around developing community and sports infrastructure, for example, which is being seen right across north Dublin and in many other parts of the country. Similarly, there is the work the then Minister, former Deputy Humphreys, did at the time concerning the wider social infrastructure across the State. There was a massive uplift in support.

Regarding the issue the Deputy referred to in Clongriffin, I have not seen a specific allocation in that regard, except to say we are committed to social infrastructure in our wider national development plan and this will continue over the next five years to give headroom to Departments and Ministers to complement housing delivery and economic infrastructure with the need to build sustainable communities. This is why transport infrastructure is extremely important in parallel as well.

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