Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide estimates by local authority in terms of hectares and as a percentage of total development land, from State land management studies his Department has undertaken in preparation of the national planning framework of lands and development sites owned by the State either directly or indirectly and that is owned by each semi-State, which are vacant in each local authority area (details supplied). [44387/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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State land management is a core element of the forthcoming National Planning Framework, Ireland 2040: Our Plan, which includes draft proposals in relation to realising a more strategic, portfolio-management approach to the State landbank, in consultation with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. This proposed approach will be developed further in the context of the finalisation of the NPF by year-end.

The development of the State land bank for housing is a key Government objective and to this end, the publication of the Rebuilding Ireland Housing Land Map on 27 April 2017, which is available at , marks the first step in delivering the new pro-active approach to national land supply management, in line with Action 3.5 of Rebuilding Ireland.

As regards local authority owned housing lands, the relevant local authorities and the Housing Agency are currently finalising strategic development and management plans. Each Plan will outline practical ways on how these sites will be brought to development stage at the earliest appropriate opportunity.