Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimated breakdown of the 23,036 social housing units to be provided under Rebuilding Ireland by unit type, including local authority new build, approved housing body new build, Part V acquisition, and void and or refurb; and if he will confirm that all void figures are the return of long term voids into stock rather than the standard retenanting of short term voids. [1199/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Within 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 delivered from construction activity while 11,000 will be acquired by local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHBs) directly from the market or from the Housing Agency, with a portion of these latter units also being newly built. A further 10,000 units will be leased by local authorities and AHBs.

A breakdown of the approximately 26,000 units to be delivered via construction activity is contained in the table below.

The existing social units that are targeted for refurbishmentishment are those that may be derelict or in need of more substantial refurbishmentishment, over and above the normal pre-letting works carried out by local authorities under their own resources.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all social housing new build projects which are currently making their way through his department's four stage approval process, broken down by local authority area, indicating whether they are LA or AHB and indicating the stage in the approval process they are at and when tenanting is expected. [1200/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Since the launch of the Social Housing Strategy 2020and continuing with the publication last year of Rebuilding Ireland: An Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, a substantial pipeline of new social housing construction projects has now been created that has reversed the position of previous years, when local authorities and AHBs had seen much reduced activity in this area.

All of these projects are now at various stages of advancement in respect of planning, design, construction, etc. This work by local authorities and AHBs runs in parallel with the 4-stage approval process; updated details of the stage of individual projects within the approval process will be finalised and published in conjunction with the Q4 2016 Rebuilding Irelandprogress report. I am keen that all of the projects involved are advanced as quickly as possible and I have assured the local authorities that funding is available to fully support their efforts in this regard.

On completion of units through whatever delivery means, their final tenanting is then a matter for the local authorities directly. However, I am keen that in all cases there should be no undue delay between the completion of units and completion of the tenanting process.