Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The returns from the local authorities for social, affordable and cost-rental housing, which includes AHB delivery, are being collated right now. We will have them in the coming weeks and we will publish them all together very clearly. We have improved on affordable purchase overall. There are approximately 42 schemes, through the affordable housing fund with more than 3,000 affordable purchase units. We have approved more than 1,000 cost-rental tenancies. Not all of them are in place. The projects are under way and the Deputy will know many of them. We approved some earlier this week for the Deputy's own area, on the Hole in the Wall Road. Again, the number is significant. We need to ramp up the scheme further. It has been a good start. Cost rental did not exist and we legislated for it in the Affordable Housing Act. I am looking at changes to the CREL model to improve its viability as well.

I will publish the data on affordable purchase, first-home scheme and, indeed, local authority-led cost rental and AHB cost rental. There is a very small amount of local authority cost rental and we want to that ramped up. The vast bulk of it has been done by AHBs and we will be doing that next month.