Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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308. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of the targets for 2015 to 2018 announced on 1 April 2015 (details supplied), and the number of units delivered, that is tenanted on 1 April 2016, by local authority, in tabular form. [9040/16]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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309. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the 13,000 keys handed over under the social housing strategy in 2015 and in 2016 to date, by tenancy type, including local authority new build, refurbishment, acquisition and re-let; new Part V allocation; approved housing body new build and relet; new and renewed tenancy under the rental accommodation scheme; new tenancy under the housing assistance payment scheme, old tenancy transferred from the rent supplement scheme to the housing assistance payment scheme, and any other tenancy type not included in this list. [9041/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 308 and 309 together.

The Social Housing Strategy 2020targets the provision of over 110,000 social housing units, through the delivery of 35,000 new social housing units and meeting the housing needs of some 75,000 households mainly through the Housing Assistance Payment.

Social housing targets have been set for each local authority out to 2017 and are available on my Department’s website, along with the associated provisional funding allocations, at the following link:.

Over 13,000 social housing units were delivered in 2015, the first full year of implementation of the Strategy. This represents an 86% increase in unit delivery above 2014. It was achieved in a very difficult operating environment and represents a good start to the Strategy’s implementation. The targets for 2016 are again ambitious and I expect that over 17,000 social housing units will be provided this year.

In January 2016 , in collaboration with the Housing Agency, I published the Social Housing Output in 2015report, detailing how the 13,000 units were delivered across all the social housing programmes in 2015 . The report is available on my Department’s website at the following link: .

Additional data on the breakdown of output in 2015 , across all social housing delivery programmes, by local authority, is available on my Department’s website at the following link: .

Information regarding on-going output in 2016 is being gathered and will be collated and published in due course.

My Department does not hold information on the allocation of social housing supports to households on the waiting list, whether by local authority housing or other accommodation provided by a local authority.  The allocation of such support is a matter for each housing authority in accordance with its allocation scheme made under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009.