Written answers

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Regeneration Projects

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Cork city will be considered as a possible location for the establishment of a new national regeneration and development agency as provided for in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 (details supplied); when the new agency will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28946/18]

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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566. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his departmental officials have discussed the location of the national regeneration agency that was committed to in the National Development Plan 2018-2027; if a process has or will be entered into; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29026/18]

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 558 and 566 together.

Project Ireland 2040, published in February 2018, signals a significant policy shift towards securing more compact and sustainable urban and rural development, which requires significantly more effective land management in key development areas. Against that background, it is proposed to establish a National Regeneration and Development Agency to assist in ensuring a more effective approach to strategic land management, particularly in terms of publicly owned land.

The Agency will act as a national centre of expertise, working with and supporting local authorities, public bodies and other interests, to harness public lands as catalysts to stimulate regeneration and wider investment and to achieve compact, sustainable growth, with a particular emphasis on complex regeneration projects and the provision of affordable housing.

Detailed arrangements in relation to the functions, powers and mechanisms and legislative arrangements for the establishment of the Agency are currently being developed by my Department, in conjunction with the Department of An Taoiseach and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, with a view to their early finalisation. The current work in this area will inform the functions, resource needs, budgetary requirements and location of the Agency.

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