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No. 11 of 2021

Land Development Agency Bill 2021

Public bill · Government · Presented

Creates the Land Development Agency as a permanent State-owned company to turn public land into housing sites, help local authorities with housing projects, and borrow or raise money to do that work. It sets up a public register of land that could be used for housing, gives the Agency first refusal on sales of suitable public land, allows it to buy land compulsorily where needed, and requires a share of homes on such land to be kept affordable or cost rental. It also transfers the existing Agency’s staff, assets and work into the new body and brings its activities under stronger reporting and oversight.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to regulate relevant public land in order to increase the amount of land available for the provision of housing so as to address deficiencies in the housing market; for that purpose to provide for the formation of a DAC to be known as the Land Development Agency and confer functions on the Agency to develop and regenerate relevant public land for the delivery of housing and to develop and manage housing on that and other land, including with other persons or bodies; to enable the Agency to provide services to local authorities in order to assist them in the performance of their functions relating to housing; to enable the Agency to form subsidiaries for the purposes of carrying out its functions; to provide for the establishment and maintenance by the Agency of a Register of Relevant Public Land to identify land that can be made available for housing; to provide for acquisition by the Agency of relevant public land, including by means of granting it first refusal on a proposed sale; to provide for the compulsory purchase of land by the Agency; to provide for a requirement that a proportion of dwellings provided on relevant public land and former relevant public land be made available on a cost rental basis, transferred to a planning authority or transferred directly in accordance with Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021; to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to enable the Agency to perform functions of a development agency under Part IX of that Act; to amend the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 and the Housing Finance Agency Act 1981; to provide for the revocation of the Land Development Agency (Establishment) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 352 of 2018), the Land Development Agency (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 603 of 2018) and the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971 (Designation of Bodies) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 604 of 2018) and the transfer of functions, assets, liabilities and staff of the body established thereunder to the Land Development Agency; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Order for Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Dáil

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