Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary)

2:30 pm

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is not getting the figures for the actual units. I can see that is not in the table. Only the expenditure is there. We had a social housing supports target for 2017 under several headings in the tables that are traditionally published and that the Deputy will be familiar with. I will be able to give a definite figure under each when we get to the end of the year. They will show that in some areas we have gone well beyond what we were anticipating we would do. That is why we have needed to allocate money from areas such as the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, and to get a supplementary Estimate as well. Any new home in the social housing stock is welcome but I know the Deputy is probably interested in knowing what is the actual ramp up in delivery this year versus last year, by the local authorities and the housing bodies. We can provide that as well. The ramp up has been significant. We can see that already. I want to be clear, however, that when we considered 2018 and we talked about another significant ramp up as we have been that people can have faith that will be achieved. That is what the numbers will give us.

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