John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of LIHAF funding drawn down to date by project in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17492/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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As a key initiative of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is designed to fund the provision of public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages and enable housing developments to be built on key sites at scale. Funding of €200 million was originally provided under LIHAF, of which €150 million is funded by the Exchequer and local authorities fund €50 million. Further funding was made available as part of Budget 2018, bringing the total fund to €266 million and there will be a second call for proposals in order to allocate the additional funds.

To date, I have given final approval for 30 projects under LIHAF, which will activate supply of almost 20,000 housing units and grant agreements in respect of those projects have been signed. The cost of these projects is €195.7 million, of which €146.7 million will be funded by my Department and €49 million will be funded by local authorities.

Funding of €1.6 million was drawn down in respect of LIHAF projects in 2017, which was mainly in respect of design costs. A breakdown of this expenditure by LIHAF project is detailed in the following table.

It is expected that expenditure will increase substantially in 2018 as projects move to the construction stage.