Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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958. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the number of projects approved, by local authority, under phase 1 of the social housing strategy; and a breakdown by local authority of the amount of funding applied for and awarded under the direct building programme. [20351/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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On 1 April 2015, I announced provisional funding allocations totalling €1.5 billion for all local authorities, to meet an ambitious delivery target of 22,883 social housing units out to 2017 under the Social Housing Strategy, through a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes by local authorities.

On 5 May, I announced a major social housing construction investment programme, with a value of €312 million, covering all 31 local authorities and with over 1,700 housing units to be built across some 100 separate projects. Full details, including specifics of the projects to be progressed, the funding allocated, the number of units to be delivered across all local authorities are available on my Department’s website at the following link: .

That announcement followed proposals made by local authorities on their planned delivery of new social housing units out to 2017. This was the first such announcement under the Social Housing Strategy and the projects approved were those deemed most suitable to go ahead at this time. Local authorities are continuing to submit and refine proposals in respect of their social housing construction plans and further announcements will be made as these are evaluated.