Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Land Development Agency development of St. Kevin’s Site in Shanakiel, Cork. [59277/21]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The Land Development Agency (LDA) was established on an interim basis in September 2018, by way of an Establishment Order made under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971. The Land Development Agency Act was recently signed in law and, on commencement, the LDA will be established as a commercial State agency.

The LDA are currently progressing the development of a HSE site at St Kevin's Hospital in Cork. The site is 14.5 acres and is expected to deliver 265 homes. In April this year the LDA was granted planning permission for this site and the LDA have advised my Department that a tender for enabling works was recently issued and that the first homes are expected to be available in 2023. 

Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the last date he undertook engagement with the Land Development Agency in relation to St. Kevin’s Site in Shanakiel, Cork. [59278/21]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The Land Development Agency (LDA) was established on an interim basis in September 2018, by way of an Establishment Order made under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971. The Land Development Agency Act was recently signed in law and, on commencement, the LDA will be established as a commercial State agency.

I met with the LDA management team on 17 November 2021 to discuss the ongoing and future work of the Agency during which the LDA team gave an overview of all current LDA projects. 

The LDA are currently progressing the development of the St. Kevin's site. The site is 14.5 acres and is expected to deliver 265 homes. In April this year the LDA was granted planning permission for this site and the LDA have advised that a tender for enabling works was recently issued and that the first homes are expected to be available in 2023. 

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social houses built in Ireland to date in 2021. by county in tabular form. [59297/21]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of projected social housing builds by the end of 2021, by county in tabular form. [59298/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 93 and 94 together.

Details on social housing delivery for each local authority, across a range of delivery mechanisms, are included in the social housing statistics published by my Department. This data is available to the end of Quarter 2 2021 and is on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.

A detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report is also published each quarter which provides scheme level detail on new build activity. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Quarter 2 2021 and is available on my Department's website at www.gov.ie/en/publication/d7709-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q2-2021/.  This data includes information for each local authority and includes a list of the individual projects that make up the new build programme for that local authority.