Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 319: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Department has ownership of a property (details supplied) in County Kildare or if he has received any application for funding from a local authority for the stated property; if so, the position of this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11156/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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The site at Magee Barracks was one of the State lands assigned to the Affordable Housing Initiative. In October 2009 it was the view of the Project Board set up to oversee the development of the site via a Public Private Partnership that the site could not be economically developed for the purposes of the Affordable Housing Initiative. The lands had not been formally transferred to Kildare County Council and remain under the control of the Department of Defence.

An application was received in 2010 for payment of the expenditure that Kildare County Council had incurred in respect of the planning for the site including costs incurred for the public consultation process and other related expenses. €1,097,861 was paid to Kildare County Council in respect of the claim in December 2010. This amount related to expenditure incurred by the Council up to 31 October 2009.