Erin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the actions taken in Louth by the Land Development Agency, and to list the State-owned sites that might be available for potential development. [7300/25]

Erin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any active plans to build social and affordable housing units on State lands in Louth by the Land Development Agency. [7301/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 498 and 499 together.

Government maintains a strong focus on the use of vacant and underutilised public land for housing.

The transfer of over 30 state owned sites to the Land Development Agency (LDA) for regeneration and development of affordable and social housing has now been agreed under the Government’s Housing for All Plan, and following assessment of state lands identified in the LDA’s first Report on Relevant Public Lands (RRPL) published in 2023. A total of eighty three sites (five in Louth) with potential for housing development in the future were identified by the LDA in ten main urban locations (cities and key growth towns, including Drogheda and Dundalk).

The LDA are currently preparing the 2nd edition of this report for submission to Government for consideration. This next edition will provide an update on those sites identified in the 1st Report, and will also include additional sites in towns of scale across the country.

My Department will then engage with site/land owners identified in the 2nd Report to consider the sites identified for potential transfer for housing delivery. Some sites are suitable to progress to design and planning and early transfer, subject to achieving statutory consents and agreement. Others are large, complex and/or in operational use. If suitable and prioritised, these sites require further inputs, such as master planning, enabling works, relocation of existing operations, before the LDA can make applications for statutory consents or development.

The Land Development Agency, Act of 2021 requires the LDA to establish and maintain a . The Register is used as a tool to facilitate the identification of potential relevant public land for the provision of affordable and social housing for both now and in the future. More information, including details of relevant public land identified in Louth is available on the LDA website via the following link: