Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of LIHAF funds accessed by Fingal County Council in relation to a development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49772/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) provides grants to 14 local authorities to construct public infrastructure which will in turn enable accelerated development on nearby housing sites.

The project referred to consists of public infrastructure which has been approved for LIHAF funding in the amount of €4.90 million, with 75% or €3.68 million being funded by the Exchequer through a LIHAF grant and the remaining 25% being provided by Fingal County Council.

The infrastructure works include road improvements and junction works at Rathbeale Road. The road will be constructed following a public procurement process conducted by Fingal County Council and will be on public lands, for the use of the general public. The building of this public road will stimulate the development of eight hundred much needed houses by 2021 on the associated housing site. Construction works on the project are due to commence in February 2019.