Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that were received in round one funding of the urban regeneration and development fund in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28957/20]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received by his Department for round two funding of the urban regeneration and development fund which opened earlier in 2020 under (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28964/20]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the closing date and time of round 1 applications for the urban regeneration and development fund; the date and time each of the applications was received by project name, county, method of submission, that is by email and or fax and so on in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29190/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 84, 85 and 96 together.

Call 1 of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) was launched in July 2018, and 189 proposals for URDF funding support were received by my Department by the closing date of 28th September 2018. My Department has provided considerable information on all applications received on its website, but this does not include precise details of time of receipt or method of submission, requested by the Deputy, which would be time-consuming to collate at this stage. All of the applications assessed were received by the deadline, and key details of all these applications for Call 1 is available at the following location on my Departments website.

The application process was competitive and in that context all proposals went through a rigorous assessment including consideration by a Project Advisory Board (PAB), which consisted of representatives from my Department, other relevant Government Departments, agency representation and independent national and international expert representatives.

Following this process, on 26 November 2018, 88 projects were approved for URDF support, one of which was subsequently withdrawn by the applicant.

All applicants both successful and unsuccessful received a detailed breakdown of the assessment of their proposal. Where the decision in respect of a proposal was unfavourable, applicants were offered the opportunity to request a review of the Departments decision.

Requests for a review were submitted in respect of seven proposals. Each of the proposals involved was reviewed, having regard to the PAB's original evaluation and scoring of the proposal against the URDF programme criteria. In all cases it was found there was nothing to support an outcome that would be materially different from that arrived at through the PAB process.

The following table lists the 87 projects advanced under Call 1 together with up-to-date provisional URDF funding allocations.

Call 2 of the URDF was launched in January this year, and 76 proposals were received by the closing date of 29thMay, with every local authority submitting at least one application for URDF support. Because of the nature of the URDF programme the proposals are very complex, and each will require detailed assessment.

As this deliberative assessment process is still ongoing it would not be appropriate to provide detailed information on Call 2 proposals at this time.

It is intended that a new tranche of approved proposals, which will augment the existing pipeline of projects from Call 1 and contribute to the achievement of Programme for Government commitments and the objectives of the National Planning Framework and Project Ireland 2040, will be announced later in the year.