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Pressure mounts on housing minister to explain source of ‘mystery €6 billion’ LDA funding

Leo Varadkar said the extra funds for the Land Development Agency did not form part of budget package as it was an off-balance sheet transaction

‘We don’t know where the €6bn is coming from’ – confusion over Darragh O’Brien’s budget plans

A fortnight after his budget day announcement, the Land Development Agency ‘capitalisation’ figure touted by housing minister seems to have dissipated into the woodwork

Land agency’s ‘targeted search’ for new head of finance continues

The hunt at the LDA continues after the preferred candidate for the job of chief financial officer at the state’s housing development bureau turned it down

State’s Land Development Agency could be hit with multimillion land hoarding taxes

State’s social housing body said tax would drive up cost of buying and renting affordable homes to be built on such sites

Developers push back against new land-hoarding taxes

Homebuilders and investment funds are lobbying to avoid millions of euro-worth of taxes on inactive land banks which have received planning permission

State land agency outsources €42 million of work in four years

LDA has built no homes on state lands yet, but has agreed contracts with outside firms for everything from architectural to legal services

Internal report: LDA pays more to build affordable homes than EU neighbours

Confidential Land Development Agency comparison report seen by the Business Post

Delays and debate: Inside the Land Development Agency’s first four years

The Land Development Agency was launched in 2018 with the promise of becoming as significant a state body as the ESB or the IDA. Four years on, with no houses yet delivered on state land, what has the body achieved?

Government housing body has not built one house on state lands

All 270 homes delivered by the Land Development Agency to date have been bought from private developers. Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin claims the agency is competing with first-time buyers and approved housing bodies for limited number of new builds

Developer rails against ‘diabolical’ process as Coolock housing plan is rejected

Having rezoned the former Chivers factory site from commercial to residential, developer Andrew Gillick wanted to build 550 affordable units for ‘normal people’. But then began a long and ill-fated email exchange with the Land Development Agency

Relic of old Dundrum set for new lease of life as a ‘garden city’ transformation looms

Planning application includes plans for 881 homes, a landscaped pedestrian route parallel to the village’s main street, a new square and three mini parks

Productivity in construction has been ‘poor’ — new LDA boss

Cormac O’Rourke says builders ‘continue to execute a traditional site-based approach’ and the LDA will ‘encourage standardisation and modular construction’

Moran: government must show more urgency on housing crisis

John Moran, the former secretary general of the Department of Finance and ex-chair of the Land Development Agency, said the government’s current approach to delivering affordable homes could take 25 years to succeed

Land Development Agency budget will be doubled to €2.5bn

The agency has also been given extra powers to acquire state-owned land under a new ten-year ‘Housing for All’ strategy, which will be published later next month

New rules will mean only social and affordable housing for public lands in Dublin and Cork

Minister for Housing wants Land Development Agency to provide 100 per cent social and affordable homes on state’s sites in main cities

Can the Land Development Agency finally solve Ireland’s housing crisis?

The government is in a hurry to have the LDA established before the Dáil goes on holidays, but one Green Party TD says it would be worth losing the party whip to make his point about what the agency should be doing. And Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats want social and affordable housing to form ‘100 per cent’ of most LDA sites in Dublin

European legal case could put LDA plans for 700 homes in Dublin 8 at risk

Land Development Agency’s proposal for St Teresa’s Gardens covered by same master plan for adjacent sites that is being challenged in European Court of Justice

Land Development Agency records could be protected from public view

Records generated by LDA subsidiaries during the first six months of their existence will not be covered by transparency laws

New cost-rental homes will leave tenants spending 40% of wages on rent

The homes in Dublin and Cork are being delivered by the Land Development Agency, but critics are describing them as unaffordable to most renters

Analysis: How Sinn Féin will seek to undermine LDA launch with its own unofficial website

‘Non-partisan’ site will be modelled on Nama Wine Lake project which gained a considerable following and led to questions in the Dáil