Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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1082. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, in tabular form, of the funding for social housing in each local authority for the years 2000 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the number of new units built in each year and the category of housing units built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22276/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Under my Department’s Social Housing Capital Investment Programme, funding is provided to housing authorities to increase their supply of social housing stock through the construction and acquisition of houses and apartments. Details of the funding provided to local authorities from 2004 to 2014 are readily available in my Department and are outlined in the tables below. Details of the funding for the years 2000 to 2003 inclusive will be collated and provided to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Social housing is a key priority for this Government, evidenced by the additional €2.2 billion in funding announced for it in Budget 2015 and the publication of the Social Housing Strategy 2020in November 2014. I expect that, nationally, some 7,400 new social housing units will be provided under a range of initiatives for 2015.

In relation to the number of units delivered as a result of the Social Housing Capital Investment Programme in the period 2000-2014, my Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy. It includes data on the number of social housing units delivered, broken down by year, and those data are available on my Department’s website at:

by clicking “Social Housing Outputs” under the Social Housing Supports heading.