Written answers
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Social and Affordable Housing Provision
Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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407. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report to Dáil Éireann on the number of persons who will be housed by local authority and by area in 2016 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10332/16]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The allocation of social housing support to qualified households is, in the first instance, a matter for the local authority concerned, in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated Regulations. Information on the number of social housing units delivered in 2015 can be found in the Social Housing Output in 2015report. The report, which was published on 26 January 2016, in collaboration with the Housing Agency, is available on my Department’s website at the following link:
Additional data on the breakdown of output, across all social housing delivery programmes, by local authority in 2015, are 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.
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: .
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