Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of the new social housing builds, and refurbishments, as well as the arrangements for additional units through social leasing, the rental accommodation scheme and housing assistance payments, as promised for 2015 in the Government's Housing Strategy 2020; and if he will provide projected figures for the end of the first quarter of 2015. [9106/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I refer to the reply to Question No 1 on today’s Order Paper. The 7,400 new social housing units to be provided in 2015 are broken down as follows:

- 1,400 units to be built or acquired by local authorities and approved housing bodies;

- 3,000 units under the Social Housing Leasing Initiative;

- 1,000 vacant local authority units will be returned to use; and,

- 2,000 new Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) units.

In addition, a further 8,400 households will be assisted through the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP).