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

I thank the Deputy for his question. Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase housing supply to the required average of 33,000 homes per annum over the next decade. This includes 54,000 affordable home interventions. They will be delivered between now and 2030. They will be facilitated through local authorities, approved housing bodies, AHBs, the Land Development Agency and strategic partnerships between the State and retail banks. In Housing for All, we targeted affordable purchase and cost rental output of 5,500 and 6,400 for 2023 and 2024, respectively, to be delivered across the various delivery streams, including the first home scheme.

As the Deputy will be aware, 2022 saw the first delivery of affordable housing in a decade by local authorities and the first ever affordable housing delivery by the LDA. I anticipate that the momentum generated by this initial and welcome delivery will be ramped up over 2023 and 2024. A pipeline of housing delivery is now in place across our delivery partners and under ongoing development by local authorities, AHBs and the LDA.

At local level, each local authority has prepared and published a housing delivery action plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery and foreseen output from other delivery streams. They set out projected delivery on an annual basis from 2022 to 2026. All that information is available to all Deputies in the House.

We have a strong pipeline, particularly through the affordable housing fund. We now have 52 projects approved across 15 local authorities with 3,164 homes within that. We are receiving applications every week. Just this week, in Mariners Way, Rush, which is in my own area, we have advertised a further 55 cost-rental homes, which are going out for tenanting right now with rents starting at €910 per month.

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