Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full list of lands in the ownership of each local authority that are zoned for housing. [2258/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Land Development Agency (LDA) has developed the State Lands Database which provides a detailed and mapped representation of the extent and location of lands owned by public bodies including local authorities in Ireland. Its contents are informed by the LDA’s engagement with the Property Registration Authority, Ordnance Survey Ireland and other public bodies.

The constraints and limitations with difficulties regarding data and ongoing land registration means that the LDA will continue to update the State Lands Database to take account of information from local authorities and other public bodies on entries/records provided, and as new publicly owned sites are added to the webmap.

Details of the zoning status of lands identified in the State Lands Database are available as part of the information provided by the LDA. This zoning information is sourced from the MyPlan.ie platform which amalgamates the zoning information from statutory City and County Development Plans nationally.

The LDA has also completed the Register of Relevant Lands, being lands owned by local authorities and bodies listed under Schedule 1 and 2 of the Land Development Agency Act 2021, in urban population areas greater than 10,000. Both the State Lands Database and the Register o relevant lands are also available in an online map format on the LDA website at the following link: lda.ie/register-of-relevant-lands/map/.

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full list of Part 8 planning permissions that have been granted for houses in each local authority in the past 15 years; the number of housing developments that have been built as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2259/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Local authority "own" developments as prescribed in Part 8 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, are classified as exempted development under section 4 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), and therefore no planning application is required for local authority development of this nature.

Section 179 of the Act provides that, with certain exceptions, Part 8 type development proposals require a public consultation process and the consent by resolution of the elected members of the relevant local authority in order to proceed. Further to the public consultation on such a proposed development and the Chief Executive's report on the public consultation, the proposed development may be carried out as recommended in the Chief Executive's report unless the elected members of the local authority, by resolution, decide to vary or modify the proposed development otherwise than as recommended in the Chief Executive's report, or decide not to proceed with the development.

As Part 8 type developments are exempt from planning permission, my Department does not compile statistics in this regard and individual local authorities should be contacted for the information sought.