Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion

Ms Caroline Timmons:

I will address that. The information is available on the statistics page of the Department's website, which lists all the units delivered from 2002 to 2018. In 2016, 36 units were acquired under Part 5; in 2017, it was 522 units; and in 2018, it was 841 units. We can provide members of the committee with a copy of that information but it is available on the website, where it is broken down by levels of affordable housing and by local authority and by voluntary and co-operatives. It goes into those numbers, which is useful. It shows that the output went down severely over the years. There was a total of about 9,000 since that provision came in. The output went up significantly up to 2009 and then there was a severe drop off, right back to 36 units in 2016, which is the lowest we have had. We have not seen Part 5 spike it up. The 10% figure is there, but it has not got back to the level at which we need it to be. I hope that those figures are useful.

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