John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the years in which a fund (details supplied) will be drawn down; the number of houses that will be constructed each year between 2017 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17261/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The aim of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is to relieve critical infrastructural blockages in order to enable the accelerated delivery of housing on key development sites in urban areas with high demand for housing.

A call for proposals was issued to all local authorities in August 2016. It was open to all local authorities to apply for funding towards the capital cost of public infrastructure, which, when provided, would secure the early delivery of additional housing at considerable scale and more affordable price points, with developments in excess of 500 units in the Dublin area, or in excess of 200 units in areas outside Dublin.

Twenty-one local authorities submitted a total of 74 proposals in October 2016. On 28 March 2017, I announced funding for 34 projects under LIHAF. The cost of these projects is €226.46 million, of which €169.65 million would be funded under LIHAF with local authorities funding the remaining €56.81 million. These public infrastructure projects will be key to the delivery of 23,000 housing units over the next four years, with a longer term projection of up to 70,000 units as the selected sites are fully built out.

South Dublin County Council received approval for infrastructure projects at Adamstown, Corkagh Grange and Clonburris. The total cost of these projects is €27.39 million, of which €20.54 million will be funded by my Department and South Dublin County Council will provide €6.85 million. Drawdown of the funding will take place in the period to 2019. These projects are expected to deliver 3,000 housing units by 2021 and have the potential to support 11,500 housing units in the longer term, once the sites are fully built out.