Written answers
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Emergency Accommodation
Chris Andrews (Dublin Bay South, Sinn Fein)
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287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that have been taken to bring the Old Baggot Street Hospital into use as accommodation for refugees given there is an extreme need for accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers; and the measures that he has taken since the feasibility report in relation to this site which was completed in March 2022. [61862/22]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has continued to work with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth around the Emergency Refurbishment (Ukraine) project and supporting the specific accommodation needs, particularly in respect of multi-occupancy vacant properties that may be suitable and available for use as accommodation, subject to refurbishment being carried out.
To that end, Dublin City Council were requested to conduct an initial site inspection on the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street to ascertain if it was a suitable building to be refurbished to house Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (Ukrainians). The site investigation report found that the building in its current condition is not habitable and the work required to bring this facility into a habitable condition would take a substantial period of time and money for a housing solution that is temporary in nature.
As this property is very large and located in a central location, it may be more appropriate for a long term accommodation strategy and my Department is engaging with other Departments about the potential use.
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