Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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624. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the planned capital expenditure in each year up to 2020 for social housing build through local authorities. [26027/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Social Housing Strategy 2020, published in November 2014, sets out clear, measurable actions and targets to increase the supply of social housing, reform delivery arrangements and meet the housing needs of all households on the housing list.  The Strategy will support an additional 35,000 new units to be delivered by local authorities and approved housing bodies through a combination of building, purchase and leasing schemes at an estimated cost of €3.8bn.

Ambitious targets have been set for local authorities in respect of this delivery to 2017, with the announcement on 1 April 2015 of allocations of over €1.5 billion.

Together with Minister of State Coffey, I announced €312 million of funding on 5 May 2015 for the first phase of a direct build local authority construction programme, which will result in an additional 1,700 social housing units by 2017.  Details are available on my Department's website at the following links:and .

Further announcements of new unit delivery under the Capital Assistance Scheme and the broader social housing investment programmes will be made in the coming weeks and months.