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City Council
Meeting 02/11/2026
Agenda items
26 subjects|
#11
Housing Supply Monthly Update
Report No. 225/2026 from the Assistant Chief Executive provides the monthly update on housing supply and delivery in Dublin City, including project pipelines, timelines and area-by-area data on social, affordable and cost-rental housing. Main issues Many councillors strongly criticised Minister James Browne's decision to phase out turnkey acquisitions, with Cllr. Doolan calling it «doomed to fail» without proper funding, resources and procurement reform and Cllr. MacDonncha describing it as a «disgrace» given the council's dependence on acquisitions for three-bed homes; management reiterated that tenant-in-situ and vacant acquisitions are unchanged and only late-stage turnkeys are ending by end-2027. Significant concern about long waiting lists and specific cases, including a constituent 22 years on the list with stage four cancer, delays at Marshals Yard where legal and conveyancing issues are blocking move-ins, slippage at the Readymix/East Wall site now awaiting ministerial approval to appoint a contractor, Croke Villas enabling works, and only one social home in next year's northwest pipeline despite a large combined list; Cllr. Lyons also asked whether discretion could restore list time to applicants who «went missing» due to addiction and have since recovered. Councillors also raised the balance of social housing on the LDA's Pear Tree Crossing site, where only the Part 5 requirement is currently committed, under-provision of three-bedroom and universal design homes with a housing needs demand assessment due at SPC, parking standards in new schemes, rent arrears (74% headline figure despite 98.5% billed and received in 2025), a downsizing programme freeing up 26 three/four-bed homes, and DCC's overall 1.6% vacancy rate.
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40 minutes25
#6
84-Unit Housing at Darndale Spine Site
Report No. 222/2026 proposes a Part 8 residential development of 84 homes on the Spine Site at Darndale, Dublin 17, in 2-3 storey buildings, including 50 senior citizen units and 34 general needs social homes with 86 sq.m of communal building and 337 sq.m of open space. The scheme has gone through four informal consultations, statutory Part 8 consultation and multiple area committee briefings over about three years, with the height reduced from 5 to 2-3 storeys and units reduced from 104 to 84. Main issues Two amendments were tabled when the item resumed: Councillor Mahon's non-material amendment to change two ground-floor residential units to community use, reducing the scheme to 82 units and committing to further co-design engagement on open space, and Councillor Lyons' material amendment to convert 10 apartments to community use and study peripheral open space for infill and community facilities. Management advised that the first amendment could proceed as non-material while the second would require the scheme to be redesigned from the beginning. A roll-call vote on the first (Mahon) amendment carried with 53 in favour, 4 against and 2 abstentions; the Lord Mayor then declared the second amendment fallen and the Part 8 scheme as amended agreed.
Darndale
24 minutes19
#18
Motions on Notice
Motions submitted on notice by elected members will be considered by the council. These are formal proposals tabled in advance for debate and decision.
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26 minutes19