Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of local authority new builds for 2016 and to date in 2017; the proposed builds and number of dwellings in 2017, by county, in tabular form; if he will include proposed completion dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16677/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I have published a comprehensive status list of social housing schemes that are advancing nationwide, which can be accessed at the following link:. This status report lists the 504 approved social housing construction projects and their locations and contains a range of information relating to their advancement, including those delivered in 2016 and those progressing through planning, design and construction.

These 504 projects, when completed, will deliver circa 8,430 new social houses, some of which were completed in 2016, with the others in the pipeline being completed in 2017 and subsequent years. These projects are funded under a range of different initiatives such as local authority construction/turnkey developments, rapid delivery, regeneration programmes and construction and turnkey developments by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) under the Capital Assistance Scheme and the Capital Advance Leasing Facility. The precise timing for the advancement of each of these projects, including completion dates, is a matter for the relevant local authorities and AHBs concerned, in the first instance. However, within the overall 21,000 social housing solutions targeted for delivery this year, some 4,500 of these will be delivered through new builds/acquisitions and a significant proportion of these will involve new construction. 

Further project approvals are being added to the pipeline as they are developed by local authorities and AHBs, details of which will be included in the next quarterly report under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan. I am keen that all local authorities advance their social housing projects as speedily as possible and I have assured them that funding is in place to support their activity in this regard.