Written answers

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the guidelines for the qualification criteria for specific instances houses from local authorities; the cases in which a sole applicant can be considered for a special instance house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17541/17]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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It is a matter for each local authority to determine the nature, location and relative priority of individual social housing projects. In submitting proposals for funding to my Department in respect of new social housing projects, local authorities may include proposals for single social houses in rural areas where they have identified and prioritised such need.

Local authorities now have substantial pipelines of new social housing projects, ranging from larger scale developments to smaller scale projects, details of which have been published and are available at the following link: http://rebuildingireland.ie/news/social-housing-developments/. I am keen that they advance all of these as soon as possible and have assured them that funding is available to fully support their efforts in this regard.

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