Written answers

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing Provision

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 23 October 2013, if he will provide details of the 5000 new social housing units delivered in 2013 including a breakdown per local authority area; the number of these units that are new builds; the number that are voluntary housing units; the number delivered via leasing or other similar arrangements; the number acquired from National Asset Management Agency; if he will provide the same information for the 5000 expected units for 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51935/13]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The housing budget for 2013 provides a €310 million allocation in current spending while €275 million will be invested through the housing capital programme.

In the region of 5,000 units will be provided for social housing in 2013 including:

- 350 units for people with special housing needs;

- 150 units specifically for people leaving institutional care;

- an additional 400 permanent homes delivered through capital expenditure under the Social Housing Investment Programme;

- some 4,000 new units under Social Leasing and the Rental Accommodation Scheme, including housing units acquired under the Mortgage to Rent scheme.

At this stage of the year, it is not possible to provide a complete breakdown per local authority area of the location of all the above units. However a breakdown of delivery under Leasing to the end of October will be included with the official record along with a breakdown by county of the NAMA units identified, deemed suitable and completed or contracted to the end of September 2013.

The 2014 estimate for housing programme expenditure is €575.833 million which includes €302.762 million for current expenditure and €273.071 million for capital expenditure.

In the region of a further 5,000 units will be provided for social housing in 2014. This will include:

- 175 new units for people with special housing needs;

- a further 150 new units, to be provided specifically for people with disabilities leaving institutional care through leasing arrangements;

- an additional 200 new homes under the Social Housing Investment Programme;

- 1,200 new units through leasing arrangements (including 350 units through the Mortgage to Rent scheme and 400 unit sourced by NAMA); and

- a further 2,500 new transfers under the Rental Accommodation Scheme.

County Leasing Units* To the end of October 2013
Carlow 4
Cavan 2
Clare 27
Cork City 1
Cork County 82
DLR 78
Donegal 18
Dublin City Council 100
Dublin Fingal 63
Dublin South 40
Galway City 18
Galway County 13
Kerry County 30
Kildare 12
Kilkenny 13
Laois 20
Limerick City 3
Longford 1
Louth 58
Mayo 34
Meath 4
Offaly 34
Sligo 4
Tipperary North 65
Tipperary South 12
Waterford County 3
Westmeath 71
Wexford 10
Wicklow 5
Overall 825

* Leasing units include mortgage to rent units and NAMA units delivered through Leasing

NAMA sourced units

County Identified Suitable Complete/Contracted
Carlow 137 82 55
Cavan 47 - -
Clare 169 19 7
Cork 471 271 36
Cork City 419 202 53
Donegal 95 59 -
Dublin City 628 252 55
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 328 122 58
Fingal 203 45 20
Galway 84 44 -
Galway City 117 117 45
Kerry 90 52 15
Kildare 243 97 57
Kilkenny 167 96 -
Laois 98 10 -
Leitrim 35 - -
Limerick 112 9 9
Longford 31 11 -
Louth 27 27 27
Mayo 66 58 -
Meath 203 38 -
Monaghan 35 30 -
North Tipperary 13 - -
Offaly 79 64 -
Roscommon 91 1 -
Sligo 46 15 -
South Dublin 60 42 -
South Tipperary 24 - -
Waterford 65 27 -
Westmeath 42 29 4
Wexford 90 74 2
Wicklow 36 7 -
Total 4,351 1,900 443

Comments

Paul Newsome
Posted on 14 Jan 2014 7:09 pm (Report this comment)

Dear Minister O' Sullivan,
There are apparently circa 260'000 private landlords in Ireland who own the roofs under which half a million renters remain effectively 'homeless'.

Find out which of these landlords are in dire negative equity, release them from it and allow the renters to buy their own homes at written down affordable social housing prices.

When people own their own humble homes they will take pride and spend money on them which will increase economic activity and the ubiquitous 'jobs' factor.

It's not rocket science and it will kick off the economy when hundreds of thousands of renters are released from endless rental hell. It won't do Labour's electoral profile any harm either.
Regards, Paul Newsome.

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