Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Dublin City Council will be selling off a number of pieces of land to fund the new northside and southside depot; and if the site value of the land will be provided to the Council in order that this land can be maintained for social and affordable housing. [13899/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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In the first instance, the optimal usage, management and development of Dublin City Council's land bank is a matter for the Council itself. In relation to the specific land referenced, I understand that the Council is working on a Depot Consolidation Project, involving the rationalisation of existing depots, into two main locations, to achieve operational efficiencies and to release lands for more appropriate uses.

My Department is working in partnership with the Council to ensure the optimal delivery of new social and affordable homes from its residential land bank. To this end, and as part of the new approach to active State land management under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, details of the Council's residential land bank were published on the Rebuilding Ireland Housing Land Map, available at .

Information on the Council's social housing developments, as at end Q3 2017, is available in the Construction Status Report which is available at . I expect to publish an updated report shortly, reflecting the position at end 2017.

My Department is also working closely with Dublin City Council on sites to help develop large mixed-tenure sites, for example, at O'Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road. In total, these two sites can accommodate the delivery of over 1,200 newly constructed homes.