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Cherrywood town centre

Summary

Deputy Boyd Barrett says the Cherrywood developer may not deliver the planned town centre despite extensive public investment and asks the Government to intervene. The Taoiseach undertakes to have the Housing Minister respond directly.

Cherrywood is the biggest residential development in the country. It is a new town with more than 8,000 apartments and houses. There are probably between 25,000 and 30,000 people living there. Many apartments and houses are being built and millions of euro of public money has gone into it but Hines, the wealth asset management company and main developer, has given clear indications to the council that it will not build the town centre. It will have made huge profits from the development, but it is indicating that it is not going to build the town centre. The whole point of Cherrywood was to have the services and infrastructure to serve the houses and to have a ten-minute town, but now it will not have a town centre because, it seems, this developer has us over a barrel.

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Thank you, Deputy. The time is up.

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I want to know what the Government can do to intervene in this situation to ensure the developer, which has made a lot of money out of that development, delivers the town centre as it was supposed to do.

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Simon Harris The Taoiseach Fine Gael

I know Cherrywood very well. I will ask the Minister for housing to reply to Deputy Boyd Barrett directly.

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We are out of time. There are four Deputies remaining and I will take a 30-second question from each of them.

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