Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which his Department has provided funding since 2020, under the urban regeneration and development fund, in tabular form. [42923/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Established under the National Development Plan 2018 – 2027, the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) programme was launched in 2018 to primarily support the National Planning Framework’s (NPF) growth enablers for the five cities and other large urban centres.

The URDF is providing up to 75% funding for applicant led projects that will support more compact and sustainable development and enable a greater proportion of residential and mixed-use development to be delivered within the existing built-up footprints of our cities and large towns, while also ensuring that more parts of our urban areas can become attractive and vibrant places in which people choose to live and work, as well as to invest and to visit. It should be noted that the URDF programme does not fund schools.

In keeping with the aims of the (NPF) and Project Ireland 2040, the URDF demonstrates a new and more tailored approach to the provision of Government support. Over its planned duration up to 2030, URDF funding support of €2 billion will be targeted to support the regeneration and rejuvenation of our key towns and cities.

To date, there have been three rounds of funding provided under the URDF, with almost €1.9 billion allocated so far. Under Call 1 and Call 2, 132 proposals comprising of over 400 individual projects, were approved for funding.

Funding under the URDF scheme is allocated at Local Authority level only and not by constituency, therefore the attached table covers the full list of projects for Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Galway City Council, Galway County Council and Wicklow County Council. There were a few exceptions under Call 1 where non-Local Authority led projects were supported, mainly in these areas and so are also listed in the table.

Recouped amounts to date are at project level and not by year. A small amount of Call 1 project funding may have been recouped in 2019, the same year they were approved.