Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the numbers of houses that will be directly built by local authorities, as against approved housing bodies, over each of the years 2017 to 2021, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28688/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Of the 47,000 social housing units to be delivered under Rebuilding Ireland, an Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness,it is estimated at this stage that approximately 26,000 will be constructed, while 11,000 will be acquired by local authorities and AHBs directly from the market or the Housing Agency, with a portion of these being newly built units. 10,000 units will be leased by local authorities and AHBs, which includes an estimated 5,000 units to be sourced from the NTMA Special Purpose Vehicle and a further 5,000 properties to be secured from a combination of the Repair and Leasing Initiative that will be piloted shortly and under long-term lease arrangements by local authorities and AHBs from a range of different sources, not including Part V. This therefore includes a mix of units from the existing housing stock and newly built units. Overall, it is estimated that around 4,700 units could be secured for social housing from Part V agreements.The table shows a breakdown of the projected delivery of the 47,000 units. The final delivery will ultimately depend on many factors, including activity in the private sector, capacity of local authorities and AHBs and readiness of projects.

Arrangements to complete the Summary of Social Housing Assessments 2016 are well advanced and will be completed by year end, providing updated figures of housing need. Targets for social housing delivery to end 2017 have already been issued - details are available on my Department’s website at www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/minsters-kelly-coffey-announce-eu15-billion-social-housing-targets-local - and the allocation, by local authority area, of increased targets under the Action Plan will be linked to the 2016 Social Housing Assessments, once available later in the year.  This link will mean that the Action Plan targets will be aligned to the up-to-date, priority housing needs locally.