Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group)
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569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 17 September 2014, in which he states that he expects some 6,000 social housing units to be delivered across the range of programmes in the calendar year 2014, if he will provide a breakdown of this delivery by number, in each category; if the 6,000 contains the number of additional payments of rent supplements and or housing assistance to tenants in private accommodation expected in 2014; if so, the number of additional payments; if the number contains new leasings of privately owned accommodation units; if so, the number; if it contains the number of refurbishments of existing social housing units; if so, the number; if it contains new houses to be built in 2014 by local authorities and approved housing associations; if so, the number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36894/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I expect some 6,000 units will be provided for social housing in 2014, the breakdown for which is as follows:

- 275 new units for people with special housing needs, provided by approved housing bodies with support under the Capital Assistance Scheme;

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

- an additional 200 new homes developed by local authorities under the Social Housing Investment Programme;

- a target of 1,960 units, supported through the construction stimulus package, for a programme of returning vacant properties to productive use;

- up to 100 new transfers under the Mortgage to Rent Scheme;

- approximately 1,100 new units through leasing arrangements; and

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

The figure of 6,000 social housing units does not include cases where housing need is met under the new Housing Assistance Payment. Households supported through rent supplement , which is a matter for the Minister for Social Protection, are also not included.