Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael)
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253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to give the National Asset Management Agency a legal role to address infrastructural problems with land under its control. [15689/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The role and mandate of NAMA is a matter, in the first instance, for the Minister for Finance.

The Programme for a Partnership Governmentincludes a commitment to the preparation and publication of an ‘Action Plan for Housing’. The Action Plan will be drafted with input from a number of key Departments, including the Department of Finance, and drawing on the work of the Special Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness, which is due to submit a final report to the Dáil in the coming days.

The focus of the early actions for delivery under the Action Plan will be to increase the supply of homes. In that regard, I have asked NAMA for concrete proposals to boost housing supply in the short-term, on land they control or influence, for both social housing and housing for the wider, private market.

In addition, the Government has committed to making funding available for infrastructure to facilitate the development of all types of housing.

The Action Plan is currently being drafted and will be finalised and published in July.