Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contact his Department has had with EUROSTAT on the classification of the Land Development Agency as being on balance sheet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43549/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department was invited by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to meet with, and brief,  EUROSTAT in relation to the Land Development Agency (LDA) as part of a routine EUROSTAT European Deficit Procedure (EDP) Dialogue visit to EU member states on 26 February 2019.

In relation to the classification of the LDA, it is understood that the CSO will not take a definitive view on this matter, until it can undertake a full analysis of the business plan and financial model of the LDA in the context of the primary legislation establishing the LDA as a commercial body.  Pending this review, the LDA has been classified by the CSO as a body within Government and I further understand that EUROSTAT concurred with this interim approach.