Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the increased use of public private partnerships in the period from 2022 to 2025. [1995/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Building on the successful model of social housing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) introduced in recent years, which will deliver in the region of 1,500 social homes across 3 bundles nationally, my Department will increase the use of PPPs to deliver social housing under Housing for All.  

The PPP model provides a delivery structure whereby social housing units remain in State ownership throughout.  The new PPPs will initially be focussed in Dublin and the Greater Dublin area where the greatest level of need exists, to support the acceleration of delivery from current levels to the levels required under Housing for All.  The PPPs will be delivered in partnership with the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) and experienced tenancy management service providers such as the Approved Housing Bodies, who will provide the required management services for the PPP developments over the operating period.

My Department is actively working with relevant stakeholders including the NDFA, the Housing Delivery and Co-ordination Office and Dublin City Council who will lead on Bundle 4 of the Programme.  A call to all other local authorities for suitable sites to progress PPP projects in their area, will be issuing shortly.