Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider providing funding for a site manager for the Ballymun area to examine the large amount of council owned land zoned for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53209/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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While the appointment of project managers for Social Housing projects is a matter for the Local Authority, funding is available for such costs from my Department. Dublin City Council (DCC) has advised my Department that they recognise the benefit of a programme management approach to enabling delivery of their ambitious housing delivery target under Housing for All. To this end they are in the process of appointing a project manager to lead, drive and co-ordinate the delivery of bundled housing projects.

DCC has also informed my Department that they have recently appointed a project manager to lead the planning and delivery of both the Church of the Annunciation and Kildonan developments. They have also advised that they will be making an application for Affordable Housing Fund funding which will include a project manager and that further consideration of appointments of project managers is underway.

Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing sites in Ballymun and Finglas that are actively been considered for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53210/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides both capital and current funding to local authorities across a range of funding initiatives to assist them in providing homes for families and individuals on their social housing waiting lists and to support affordable purchase and cost rental tenures.

To provide transparency for new social housing projects being advanced, each quarter my Department publishes a Social Housing Construction Status Report and updated Social Housing Delivery statistics for all years from 1999. The report for Quarter 2, 2021 is available at the following link: . These quarterly reports provide details of the social housing construction schemes completed and those in the pipeline for all local authorities including Dublin City Council (DCC). While the identification of sites in Ballymun and Finglas is a matter for the local authority, new applications for funding consideration will be welcomed by my Department.

DCC have informed my Department that their Housing Development section is working with all relevant stakeholders, including the local elected members and local community, to progress the delivery of a mixed typology of housing in the Ballymun and Finglas areas to meet current and future housing needs.