Written answers

Thursday, 28 June 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Authority Housing

5:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when it is expected to put in place a local government capital housing programme with particular emphasis on the need to meet the requirements of the vast number of housing applications currently on the housing lists of various local authorities some of whom have been on such lists for more than ten years; if he will draw up a programme to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31445/12]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Government's Housing Policy Statement, published in June 2011, sets out a vision for the future of the housing sector in Ireland based on choice, fairness, equity across tenures and on delivering quality outcomes for the resources invested. The overall strategic objective is to enable all households access good quality housing appropriate to household circumstances and in the particular community of choice.

My Department's Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP) is being restructured to allow for the delivery of new social housing through more flexible funding models such as the Rental Accommodation Scheme and the Social Housing Leasing Initiative, each of which will play their part as long-term social housing supports. The constraints on the public capital programme will rule out a return to very large capital funded social housing construction programmes by local authorities in the medium term. Of the €390 million available under the SHIP for 2012, some €112m is being provided for local authority social housing construction and acquisition programmes. A further €70 million is being provided for special needs housing provision by the voluntary housing sector under my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS). I intend to announce details shortly of a limited programme of investment in new social and voluntary housing under SHIP and CAS for the period to end 2014.

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