Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if local authorities are obliged to purchase houses constructed in new housing developments which are set aside for social housing through Part V; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14296/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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There are a number of options open to a planning authority when making an agreement under Part V of Planning and Development Act 2000:

- the transfer to the ownership of the planning authority of a part or parts of the land subject to the planning application;

- the building and transfer to the ownership of the planning authority, or persons nominated by the authority, of a number of housing units on the site subject to the planning application;

- the transfer to the ownership of the planning authority, or persons nominated by the authority, of housing units on any other land in the functional area of the authority;

- the granting of a lease of housing units to the planning authority, either on the site subject to the planning application or on any other land within the functional area of the authority;

- a combination of two or more of the options above.

Ministerial Guidelines on Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, issued in January 2017, advise planning authorities that, subject to the availability of funding, the option they should pursue as a priority is the acquisition of social housing on the development site, by means of transfer of ownership to the planning authority or to an Approved Housing Body.