Property Management Branch

Property Management Branch oversees the Defence Organisation’s property portfolio and the implementation of the Defence Forces Built Infrastructure programme. This will include the development of a Masterplan for each Defence Forces installation, ensuring that projects can be tendered at scale, and allowing for installations to be future-proofed to reflect the developing needs of the Defence Forces. Property Management Branch is also managing the remediation of the former Irish Steel ISPAT site on Haulbowline, which will allow the site to be used more effectively in future.

The property portfolio consists of approximately 70 sites, including 14 permanently occupied military barracks, together with lands comprising circa 21,000 acres, most notably the Curragh Plains. The Defence Forces Built Infrastructure programme provides for the delivery of essential infrastructure projects that take account of priority military needs.

The size, diversity and nature of the property holdings is designed to support Defence Forces requirements in relation to training and maintaining military personnel, undertaking and sustaining military operations and providing accommodation and training facilities.

The provision and maintenance of this property portfolio is an essential element in enabling the Defence Organisation to fulfil its primary goal:

Property Management Branch are working in conjunction with the Land Development Agency in relation to surplus property holdings to identify potential solutions to housing demand.