Seán Haughey (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
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193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of the €5.35 billion funding promised in the Government's action plan for housing that has been spent to date; the number of social housing units that have been delivered by the action plan; the locations of each; if the remaining units will be delivered to make up the his target delivery of 47,000 units of social housing by the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18438/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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To support the implementation of the Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, I have secured €5.35 billion in investment to deliver 47,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisitions and leasing, over the period to 2021.

In 2016, over €935 million was provided through a range of housing programmes which saw the needs of over 19,000 households met. An additional €1.3 billion has been provided for 2017, of which some €0.326 billion has been expended to date. This funding is supporting the accelerated delivery of social housing and the achievement of the 2017 target to meet the needs of over 21,000 households.

Some 5,700 social housing units were delivered in 2016 from the 47,000 that are to be delivered under the Action Plan. The balance of the 2016 delivery was through the Rental Accommodation Scheme and the Housing Assistance Payment. The table shows the local authority areas where the 5,700 units were delivered. These numbers are preliminary, as the validation of statistics in respect of quarter 4 of 2016 is being finalised, at which point official statistics will be published on my Department's website.