Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for any future affordable housing schemes. [37331/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Government’s Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, which is available at the website www.rebuildingireland.ie, sets out a practical and implementable set of actions that aim to increase the supply of homes to 25,000 units per annum by 2020, thereby creating a functioning and sustainable housing system. Action 4.6 of Rebuilding Ireland provides for the introduction of a new pilot affordable rental scheme to enhance the capacity of the private rented sector to provide quality and affordable accommodation for households currently paying a disproportionate amount of disposable income on rent.

The objective of the scheme is to provide long-term affordable residential accommodation for low to moderate income key-worker households in urban areas of high demand and provide an economic incentive to increase supply of rental accommodation.

Consideration of the pilot affordable rental scheme is being progressed within the context of the comprehensive strategy for the rental sector which is being advanced under action 4.1 of Rebuilding Ireland, and which is due for publication before the end of 2016.