Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes delivered by the LDA to date, broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26676/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under Housing for All the Government has targeted delivery of 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, an average of 6,000 affordable homes to be made available or supported every year for purchase or for rent by Local Authorities, AHBs, the Land Development Agency (LDA) and via the First Home Scheme.

The LDA represents a crucial lever in the Government’s delivery of affordable and social homes, co-ordinating relevant public lands within State control and activating key underutilised sites to maximise housing delivery. To ensure the delivery of homes, the LDA deploys two primary delivery mechanisms, the first being direct delivery on lands sourced from the State, in partnership with local authorities or on lands purchased by the LDA and the second through the Project Tosaigh initiative, whereby new housing is unlocked by LDA partnerships with homebuilders.

The LDA is actively advancing fourteen direct delivery sites, capable of delivering over 5,500 homes over the next four years and it is projected by the LDA that development of these strategic sites will become the main source of its delivery over the coming years as projects achieve planning and construction starts.

Construction has commenced on the former St. Kevin’s Hospital site in Cork City which will deliver 265 new homes between 2025 and 2027 and on 219 new homes at the site of Devoy Barracks in Naas, Co Kildare, expected to be delivered between 2025 and 2026. Construction work is also advanced on the Shanganagh Castle site, the largest public housing scheme in the State in recent years, which the LDA is delivering with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, expected to yield delivery of 597 homes with delivery beginning this year.

The LDA is also working in partnership with Dublin City Council to advance large scale housing delivery at the Donore Project/St. Teresa’s Gardens in Dublin 8, at Cherry Orchard Point, Cromcastle in Dublin 5, and at Bluebell Waterways.

It is also unlocking stalled private, planning-consented developments in the shorter-term through Project Tosaigh, its market engagement initiative. Under the first phase of Project Tosaigh the LDA delivered its first homes in 2022 and approximately 2,500 social, affordable purchase and cost rental homes have since either been delivered, contracted or are in the approved pipeline.

The LDA and local authorities complete and submit data returns to my Department on delivery of affordable homes in their area in the same manner as is done for social housing. Statistical data on affordable housing delivery by tenure and by local authority area during 2022 and 2023 is published on my Department's website at the following link: .