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Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Authority Housing Data

Photo of Ruth CoppingerRuth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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590. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the housing delivery targets for each local authority area giving the number of homes that will be supplied through new council-owned accommodation and the number that will be supplied through privately owned accommodation. [18499/15]

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Social Housing Strategy’s targeted provision of over 110,000 social housing units to 2020, through the delivery of 35,000 new social housing units and meeting the housing needs of some 75,000 households through the Housing Assistance Payment and Rental Accommodation Scheme, will address the needs of the 90,000 households on the housing waiting list in full, with flexibility to meet potential future demand. The ambitious targets for each local authority to 2017, announced on 1 April 2015, combined with provisional funding of €1.5 billion, will see local authorities and approved housing bodies use a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes. These targets to 2017 include almost 7,500 units that will be capital-funded and 15,400 current-funded units, of which 11,400 will be delivered through the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) and 4,000 delivered through the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS). In addition, the Social Housing Strategy aims to support 28,000 households, to 2017, through the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP).

A breakdown of the social housing targets for each local authority, out to 2017, are available on my Department’s website at the following link:.

A further breakdown of these targets has been notified to the local authorities, the details of which are as follows:

-Local Authority Housing/

AHB delivery/

Return of vacant properties
Local Authority Housing/

AHB delivery/

Return of vacant properties
Social Housing Current Expenditure ProgrammeSocial Housing Current Expenditure ProgrammeRental Accommodation SchemeRental Accommodation Scheme
Local Authority2015/720152016/720152016/7
Carlow County Council€17.5m94651954041
Cavan County Council€11.2m6025585344
Clare County Council€22.9m124752155758
Cork City Council€118.9m643128365105108
Cork County Council€74.0m4011704947577
DLR County Council€58.3m316751387577
Donegal County Council€31.5m170651794647
Dublin City Council€277.2m14984251201110113
Fingal County Council€73.3m396200557110113
Galway City Council€25.2m136902512021
Galway County Council€26.6m144802308074
Kerry County Council€56.2m304130367127130
Kildare County Council€80.1m4331805088082
Kilkenny County Council€39.8m2151033103919
Laois County Council€29.4m158351451513
Leitrim County Council€3.6m2020382021
Limerick City and County€54.1m2931002913435
Longford County Council€6.3m3435793032
Louth County Council€53.2m2881153282324
Mayo County Council€27.2m14650137115118
Meath County Council€24.8m134752095051
Monaghan County Council€10.4m5530792021
Offaly County Council€13.9m75732071515
Roscommon County Council€4.7m251535554
Sligo County Council€18.7m10120486567
Sth Dublin County Council€64.7m350200561165169
Tipperary County Council€52.9m28790252100103
Waterford City and County€30.3m1641203366971
Westmeath County Council€27.5m148722265244
Wexford County Council€21.1m11489251110113
Wicklow County Council€28.9m156501424545

Of the €1.5 billion funding to enable the delivery of the Social Housing Strategy targets, €312 million has now been assigned to specific housing projects, which will provide a kick-start to the direct-build local authority social housing programme. It is important to recognise that direct build is just one of a suite of delivery mechanisms and this is the first announcement, with further approvals to be announced in due course.

This first phase announcement of some 100 housing projects will deliver some 1,700 units across all 31 local authorities by 2017. The specific details, including funding and the number of units to be constructed in each local authority area are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

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Further project approvals will be announced on a phased basis throughout the year as further assessments are completed. It is my intention that all of the projects already announced will be completed by 2017, at latest.

Local authorities are responsible for the detailed planning and social housing provision , at a local level, based on the identified need in their areas. It is a matter for each local authority, working with my Department, to identify and bring forward appropriate proposals to respond to the local housing need including consideration of options to acquire available properties, new building developments, leasing and the provision of housing supports through the private rental sector.

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