Written answers

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Authority Housing Provision

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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840. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out, by county, the number of newly-built social housing units completed in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46564/15]

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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841. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out, by county, the number of social housing units on which construction was commenced in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46565/15]

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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842. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out, by county, the number of newly-built social housing units that will be completed in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46566/15]

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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843. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out, by county, the number of social housing units on which construction will commence in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46567/15]

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 840 to 843, inclusive, together.

Information on social housing units constructed and acquired in respect of all local authorities and approved housing bodies and funded by direct capital investment by my Department, is published on my Department’s website at the following link:

Data up to Quarter 3 of 2015 is currently available, including a breakdown across the different categories of delivery for all local authorities. Data for the full 2015 calendar year will be available in the first months of 2016.

We now have a strong pipeline of new social housing construction projects in place following from my announcement in May 2015 of the first major social housing build programme under the Social Housing Strategy, with a further substantial announcement in July 2015 of approvals for local authorities and approved housing bodies. Between these two announcements, half a billion euro has been allocated for 2,900 social housing new builds and acquisitions to end 2017. Details of these approvals are available on my Department’s website at the following links:

In addition, under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme approved housing bodies can purchase, lease or construct housing units and make them available for social housing. While the main activity under this programme to date has been through purchase and leasing already completed units, by the end of November 2015, the construction of 17 new units had been completed and made operational for social housing purposes in 2015, with a further 589 new construction units approved but not yet completed.

It is not possible to confirm at this stage the exact breakdown of local authority units to be commenced or completed in 2016 on a county by county basis. All projects must proceed through the planning process and this and other factors can have a direct impact on the timing for the advancement of construction projects.

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