Sinn Féin establishes new Estate Regeneration Working Group – Eoin Ó Broin TD
6 February 2025
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing, Eoin Ó Broin TD, today convened the first meeting of the party’s newly established Estate Regeneration Working Group.
The group is made up of TDs, Senators and Councillors who represent communities in housing estates and flat complexes in Limerick, Cork and Dublin that are currently undergoing or are waiting for regeneration.
The group’s focus will be on issues affecting older inner-city flax complexes and existing estate regeneration projects.
Teachta Ó Broin said:
“In Limerick, Cork and Dublin there are a large number of communities in social housing estates and flat complexes that are currently undergoing or waiting for government-funded regeneration.
“These projects have been chronically underfunded for decades, are beset by delays, and increasingly communities are losing faith in the government’s approach to regeneration.
“Sinn Féin elected representatives, alongside community workers and residents, have been raising these issues on Councils, in the Oireachtas and in the media.
“Today we held the first meeting of the party’s newly established Estate Regeneration Working Group. The group involved Sinn Féin TDs, Senators and Councillors who represent these communities in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.
“The purpose of the Working Group is to raise, in the Oireachtas, the profile of the many problems that beset current regeneration programmes, and to increase the pressure on government to listen to communities and invest in addressing the physical, social and economic challenges facing some of the states most deprived and disempowered communities.
“In the coming period, the Working Group will be engaging with communities, advocacy groups, Local Authorities and Government.
“We will also be initiating a programme of work aimed at ensuring the voice of communities who have been left down by badly designed and poorly funded estate regeneration programmes can be heard in Government Buildings and that government investment and policies change to meet these community’s needs.”
