Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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268. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the 35,000 social housing units outlined in the social housing strategy 2020 by tenancy type, including local authority units that are refurbished, purchased on the open market, Part V, new build, leased where the local authority owns the units and leased where the units remain in private ownership; approved housing bodies units that are refurbished, purchased on the open market, Part V, new build by local authority, leased where the approved housing bodies own the units and leased where the units remain in private ownership; and units under the rental accommodation scheme. [11874/16]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Social Housing Strategy 2020 targets the provision of some 111,000 social housing units, through the delivery of 35,600 new social housing units and meeting the housing needs of some 75,400 households mainly through the Housing Assistance Payment. I anticipate that the 35, 600 units will be delivered as follows: some 22,300 units to be built and acquired, including Part V units, by local authorities and approved housing bodies, utilising both current and capital monies; 11,000 units to be leased by local authorities and approved housing bodies; and over 2,300 units to be supplied through the refurbishment and bringing back in to use of vacant local authority stock.

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 target for 2016 is 17,000 units. I am committed to meeting that target and my ambition is to exceed it, if possible.

The Social Housing Output in 2015 report, which was published in January 2016, details how the 13,000 units were delivered across all the social housing programmes last year. 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.

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