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Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Photo of Dessie EllisDessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of social housing units provided each year from 2000 to 2014 broken down by type, local authority, approved housing body, leasing, RAS and including the average cost to the State per unit in the case of leasing and RAS per year for each type of housing for the period covered. [3015/15]

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics, and the total number of units delivered through local authority and voluntary and co-operative provision can be found on my Department’s website at the following link: by clicking “LA Housing output (1999+) by each council” under the Social Housing Supports contents.

A breakdown of the leasing units which are operational and the average cost per unit is in tabular format below:

YearOverall Cumulative unitsAverage Cost per unit per Annum(Current expenditure costs)
2009437€1,464.53
20101,303€2,893.32
20112,496€5,528.85
20123,701€5,622.80
20134,600€5,947.83
20145,622€6,197.08
Overall5,622€6,197.08


With regard to Rental Accommodation Scheme provision, some 51,384 households have been transferred from Rent Supplement since it commenced in late 2005 up to the end of November 2014. A breakdown by local authority is set out in the table below. Of these 30,335 were housed directly under RAS and a further 21,049 were accommodated under other social housing supports.

While details of the rent paid by each authority in respect of individual RAS contracts is not collected by my Department, based on data provided by local authorities, the average monthly rent paid under the scheme in 2013 is set out in the following table, broken down by different types of units.
Year1 bed unit2 bed unit3 bed unit4 bed unit
2013€499€569€651€708


Transfers to RAS and Social Housing 2005-2014
Local Authorities 2005200620072008200920102011201220132014 to NovTotal

2005 -
Carlow Co. Cl. 0281131331501321281649338979
Cavan Co. Cl.06877681551441622421211191,156
Clare Co. Cl.449694134135102102911091171,024
Cork City Cl.503082673622793533592312061952,610
Cork Co. Cl.005186204904384293643241833,366
Donegal Co. Cl.1413734022222983232772122191312,598
Dublin City Cl.2245234566185964782513173082824,053
Dublin South Co. Cl.73884253935274523653923624393,750
DL/Rathdown Co.Cl.0492322292562561541261911171,610
Fingal Co. Cl.01221712813473315484083432482,799
Galway City Cl.621842272442081351687247201,367
Galway Co. Cl.01121321421571581131441391011,198
Kerry Co. Cl.01672722662802312122142391582,039
Kildare Co. Cl. 002863469320120211988961,431
Kilkenny Co. Cl. 0162279173143110159195174901,485
Laois Co. Cl. 06169122536475663421565
Leitrim Co. Cl. 02402844647561515271
Limerick City Cl.42116118123133174175140117741,212
Limerick Co. Cl. 0131112122133111149102590919
Longford Co. Cl. 05181121106944281625544
Louth Co. Cl.17169158281201197156292201,230
Mayo Co. Cl. 01282452442342512241752171641,882
Meath Co. Cl. 0394310813516416812410171953
Monaghan Co. Cl. 0768883721175939325571
Nth Tipperary Co. Cl.07789100132144173152129311,027
Offaly Co. Cl. 75365376127113869253471,019
Roscommon Co.Cl.05714813145165144134117971,020
Sligo Co. Cl. 3121631561631171281104256959
Sth Tipperary Co. Cl.0129179132001961991961371121,361
Waterford City Cl.022614011818111125014299621,329
Waterford Co. Cl. 0404610114215599936919764
Westmeath Co. Cl.0728314016291719012376908
Wexford Co. Cl. 91983042601912832742752551972,246
Wicklow Co. Cl. 08872175134154161187101671,139
Totals - Annual6064,4366,0546,9156,8026,6096,337545147013,47351,384

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