Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for when the next round of urban regeneration and development funding or equivalent funding will be announced. [7016/25]

Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an organisation (details supplied) to be a part of the next round urban regeneration and development funding or equivalent funding when it is announced. [7017/25]

Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total value of allocated urban regeneration and development fund funding that has been allocated to Kildare. [7018/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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A flagship element of Project Ireland 2040, the €2 billion Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) is supporting a programme of significant transformational capital projects that will contribute to the regeneration and rejuvenation of Ireland’s five cities and other large towns, in line with the objectives of the National Planning Framework and the National Development Plan.

To date, there have been three rounds of funding provided under the URDF, with approximately €1.9 billion allocated so far. While Call 1 and 2 were for specific regeneration projects, the latest round of funding (Call 3) is supporting a programme of acquisitions in each local authority to address long term vacancy and dereliction. Under Call 1 and Call 2, there were 132 proposals, comprising of more than 400 individual projects, approved for funding. URDF supported projects are now active in every local authority area in the country.

In regards to Kildare County Council, €21,929,032 in URDF support has been provisionally allocated towards their seven successful proposals approved under Call 1 and Call 2. The Council has also been allocated €7,000,000 towards its Approved Acquisition Programme under Call 3, bringing the total URDF support for Kildare under all three calls to €28,929,032.

In line with the agreed Programme for Government, I intend to continue and expand URDF-type investment in projects as part of the new Towns and Cities Infrastructure Investment Fund, which will allow for investment in infrastructure, the acquisition of land, assembly of sites and the de-risking of sites in existing towns and cities to maximise their potential growth.

The detailed arrangements for the implementation of these funding streams, including the types of projects to be considered, are currently under development in cooperation with stakeholders. I plan to make a further announcement on these funds following completion of the National Development Plan Review, when the level of additional capital funding for infrastructure investment is determined.

My Department will continue to work closely with local authorities in respect of project development under future rounds of funding. It should be noted, however, that responsibility for the composition of any applications for funding and their advancement through the various stages of planning, development and completion is, in the first instance, a matter for the relevant sponsoring agency (Kildare County Council in this instance).

In the meantime an interactive GIS Story Map site, containing details of all successful URDF projects under Call 1 and Call 2, is available to give elected representatives and members of the public access up to date information on all URDF supported projects at a Local Authority level. The site is available through the URDF site or directly via the following link:

www.experience.arcgis.com/experience/98a739a585944cf887f2dffe54c4f129/