Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an additional €50,000 departmental subsidy per unit to the cost-rental programme at St. Michael’s Estate, Inchicore will be committed to. [33865/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF), since its inception, the maximum funding available towards the cost of facilitating infrastructure is €50,000 per affordable home delivered. 

However, the Programme for Government 'Our Shared Future' contained a commitment to improve the delivery of affordable homes and to extend the SSF in this regard. To inform a review process of the scheme, I met with the Chief Executives of local authorities earlier this year and sought their views in relation to amendments that may improve the capacity to deliver more affordable homes in a shorter time-frame.  It is my intention to use the experience to date of local authorities, along with that of my own Department in managing the SSF, to bring forward any amendments to the scheme's operation I consider necessary.  

Proposals to amend the SSF are well advanced and officials from my Department continue to liaise with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in this regard.  I expect that amendments to the Scheme will be announced in the coming weeks.