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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has issued a tender worth almost €1bn for prefabricated factory-built homes as part of the local authority’s efforts to clear its social housing waiting list.
The council has called for contractors to design and build the homes in two lots: one for projects which will cost less than €15m and another for those more expensive than €15m.
The new units will a comprise a mix of one, two, and three-bedroom apartments which will be offered to families on the council’s social housing waiting list.
They will be pre-built in factories as pods, before being transported and grouped together in stacks on sites earmarked for modular housing.
It is hoped that contracts for the scheme, which developers can apply for until October 1, will begin to be offered from November.
The units are then expected to be finished within 6-8 months of contracts being offered.
Despite the overall tender being worth up to €950 million, neither the Department of Housing or Dublin City Council confirmed how many homes would be built when asked by TheJournal.ie.
However, funding for the homes will be provided through the Department of Housing’s normal capital allocation for social housing.
The Department of Housing also revealed that while Dublin City Council has issued the tender for the units, some of the homes will be used outside the capital.
“The majority of the projects are and will be advanced across Dublin but there are also schemes being developed in other cities and towns across the country,” a spokesman told TheJournal.ie.
He also said that other local authorities are currently working on proposals similar to the one outlined in Dublin City Council’s tender.
Dublin City Council currently has plans to construct around 1,000 rapid-build social houses at different locations throughout the city.
The first batch of houses from the tender is expected to be located at Bunratty Road in Coolock, on the northside of the city.
With additional reporting from Sean Murray.
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Here’s some interesting headlines from 2019:
“Sinn Féin defends right to hold $500-a-plate US dinners after criticising Fine Gael fundraiser”
“Sinn Féin fundraising passes $15 million total in America after New York dinner”
Another from 2021:
“$1,000-a-plate golf fundraiser in US not a ‘Galway tent scenario’, says Sinn Féin TD”
@honey badger: Ah it is perhaps just designed to protect the miscreants who were sent offside.
Kiddie fiddlers like Meehan and the rest? Talk to me Mary. Mc G and others don’t feature in your rhetorical bullmanure
Ther was no sign of Mary Sue at the latest march for Palestine last weekend in Dublin yet she turns up in London at one. She seems to be dodging a lot of marches on Ireland letely
SINN Fein – a party not even in power, and already they announced that they won’t accept the will of the voters in the upcoming referendum.
Why are we not surprised.
@DGQ: The PIRA murdered 338 Catholics. If you’re a big fan of their work, don’t be ashamed of that work. Own it.
SF going to see president Joe in the White House on St Patrick’s day then turn on the crocodile tears for the Palestinian people when they get back to Ireland . Hypocrites .
An Irish Unity summit in New York…..bring the begging bowl.
hi mary, are ye goin to give us up north a tv licence amnesty too?
Of course it’s a fundraising trip!
Why was it not held in Iceland or somewhere else. My question is what is why do SF need all the funds for??
Has the money from the Northern Bank heist run out? Is Shergar still alive? Some Sire!! Have Eddie and
Rose spent all their ill gotten gains? Is Naomh Fionbarra really a sports club?
Teams and Skype exists.
It wount be long now!
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