Written answers

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing Funding

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application or applications have been received from Galway City Council for funding under the serviced site initiative; when a decision will issue in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53398/18]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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In order to support the affordable housing programmes of local authorities, the Government has committed €310 million, over the three years 2019 to 2021, under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) announced as part of Budget 2019. The funding is available for key facilitating infrastructure, on public lands, to support the provision of affordable homes to purchase or rent. I envisage a maximum amount of SSF funding of €50,000 per affordable home and on this basis at least 6,200 affordable homes could be facilitated.

A first call for proposals under the Fund issued to eleven local authorities, where the greatest affordability challenge exists: the four Dublin local authorities; Kildare, Meath, Wicklow, Louth, and Galway City; Cork City and Cork County Councils.

On 11 December, I issued approval in principle for ten infrastructure projects across five local authority areas, in Dublin and Cork, under the first SSF call for proposals. This first tranche of funding of €43 million will enable the delivery of 1,400 affordable homes on local authority lands. I expect infrastructure works on these projects to begin as soon as possible and delivery of affordable homes from early 2020 onwards. Details of these projects are set out in the table below.

Another five proposals, the total funding for which is circa €8 million, and which have the potential to deliver some 230 affordable homes, are still under active consideration. This includes a proposal from Galway City Council for their site at Bóthar an Choiste. My Department is working with the City Council to advance the project, and is committed to progressing both the infrastructure and affordable housing delivery on this site, as a priority.

List of projects that have received approval in principle under the SSF first call for proposals

Local Authority
Project/Location
Total Provisional Cost of Proposal€
Provisional Exchequer Grant Amount €
Provisional Local Authority Contribution€
Affordable Housing Potential
Cork CountyGlanmire€1,500,000€1,335,000€165,00020
Cork City Boherboy Road€4,968,366€4,421,846€546,520103
Cork City Kilmore Road, Churchfield€1,410,551€1,255,390€155,16021
Dublin CityCherry Orchard€7,645,415€6,804,419€840,996183
Dublin CityBalbutcher, Ballymun€4,135,351€3,680,462€454,88974
Dublin CitySillogue, Ballymun€3,975,000€3,537,750€437,25083
DLREnniskerry Road€4,537,576€4,038,443€499,13350
FingalChurch Fields, Mulhuddart€11,000,000€9,790,000€1,210,000753
FingalDun Emer, Lusk€1,500,000€1,335,000€165,00074
FingalHackettstown, Skerries€2,198,667€1,956,814€241,85349
Total€42,870,926€38,155,124€4,715,8011410

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