Paul Lawless (Mayo, Aontú)
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29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hectares of land owned by local authorities which is zoned for housing nationwide by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12475/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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It should be noted in the first instance that the zoning of land within a statutory city or county development plan or a local area plan is not broken down on the basis of individual sites or parcels of land by individual ownership. My Department therefore does not have the requested details for local authorities available.

However, 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.

The constraints and limitations 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.

The zoning status of lands identified in the State Lands Database is available as part of the information provided by the LDA. This is sourced from my Department’s 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 of Relevant Lands are available in an online map format on the LDA website: lda.ie/register-of-relevant-lands/map