Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing units he expects to be delivered as a result of the additional €127 million allocated to local authorities in Budget 2017; and the type of social housing he expects to be funded through this funding stream. [31753/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Budget 2017 saw the Government allocating €1.2 billion to housing programmes, a 50% increase over 2016, which will underpin Rebuilding Ireland, the Government's Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness.

Of this increased funding, €127 million additional funding has been provided for 2017 in respect of the delivery by local authorities of new social housing via capital programmes supporting the construction and acquisition of houses and apartments. The overall budget for 2017 under this measure is now €307 million, which includes €43 million which will be self-funded by local authorities from their Local Property Tax receipts. I expect that over 1,500 new social homes will be provided by local authorities with this funding, mainly through construction activity, including rapid delivery projects and standard-build projects. An amount of acquisitions of new social homes will also be funded, both units that will be directly acquired by local authorities and units to be delivered under Part V arrangements.

This funding does not include the delivery of social homes via other capital programmes for construction activity, including refurbishment and regeneration.