Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the 13,000 social housing units provided in 2015 under the housing assistance payment scheme, the rental accommodation scheme and the social inclusion and community activation programme, by scheme and by local authority, in tabular form. [4235/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The report Social Housing Output in 2015contains details on the progress made under each of the social housing programmes last year and is available on my Department’s website at:

To the end of November 2015, a total of 1,084 units were delivered under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP). While the total number of units delivered to end 2015 is yet to be finalised, I estimate that the final figures will be in the region of 1,450 units.

The number of households transferred from rent supplement to the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) from January to end November 2015 was 1,644 households. My Department estimates that when the December 2015 figures are finalised around 1,823 households will have transferred to RAS in 2015.

The Housing Assistance Payment is being introduced incrementally on a pilot basis to local authority areas. A total of 5,680 households commenced HAP in 2015, in addition to the 485 households accommodated through the Scheme during the early stages of the pilot in 2014. A detailed breakdown on a local authority basis is set out in the following tables.

Table - Units delivered under the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS)andSocial Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) to end November 2015

Table - Number of households that commenced the HAP scheme in 2015

* Dublin City Council is operating HAP Homeless pilot on behalf of the four Dublin local authorities.

** Includes some households supported through the HAP Homeless pilot.