Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a timeline and expected milestones for the identification and re-zoning of land following his direction to local authorities to reopen development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27842/25]

Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an audit of underutilised land or zoned but undeveloped land has been carried out in the last 12 months; if not, if such an audit will be commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27843/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Land Development Agency (LDA) is a key delivery partner in the Government’s delivery of affordable and social homes, co-ordinating housing delivery on relevant public lands within State control and activating key underutilised public sites to maximise housing delivery.

Government maintains a strong focus on the use of vacant and underutilised public land for housing and has agreed the transfer of 37 sites to the LDA for the development of affordable and social housing.

Relevant public land is land owned by a relevant public body, being a local authority, Government Minister or state body listed in Schedule 1 and 2 of the Land Development Agency Act 2021 (the Act), within a town the population of which is equal to or greater than 10,000 persons at the last Census.

The Act requires the LDA to maintain a and furnish to Government, at two yearly intervals, a . This work facilitates and supports the identification and assessment of the potential of relevant public land for the provision of affordable and social housing. The Register, which includes information regarding current use and any vacant status, can be accessed via the LDA website: www.lda.ie/public-lands/report-on-relevant-lands

The LDA recently published its 2nd Report on Relevant Public Lands, and this edition provides an update on the 83 parcels of land identified in the 1st report which focused on the ten main urban locations - (five cities and five key growth towns) and also includes consideration of additional relevant public land identified in other census towns. The 2nd Report includes most sites identified in the 1st Report, and along with new sites in towns newly considered, identifies a total of 102 parcels of land as having potential to deliver housing-led developments.

For residential land more generally, land use zonings published in individual development plan maps are aggregated to a national map as part of the Myplan.ie initiative, a web map portal providing spatial information relevant to the statutory planning system in Ireland, an initiative of my Department in conjunction with local authorities. Currently my Department is updating the zoning data from adopted development plans, with 22 of the 31 local authorities completed. The Geohive displays current data on zoning and other datasets: . The websites of each local authority can be viewed for the most up to date information on residential zoning provision.

For a national summary of available, undeveloped residential land use zonings, the Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) maps provide an up to date perspective. Local authorities are required to publish annual draft and final Residential Zoned Land Tax maps each year that identify lands that fall within the scope of the tax. It should be noted however, that a significant quantum of the overall land included on the maps is land that is zoned for existing residential development, and where a property is liable for Local Property Tax (LPT), the relevant land is not liable for RZLT. The most recent maps can be viewed on the Government’s dataset: