Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of houses that will be constructed in 2017 in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20137/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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A substantial pipeline of new social housing construction projects, which are being advanced by local authorities and approved housing bodies is now in place. The progress now being made in this area can be seen in the Social Housing Construction Projects Status Report, which I published on 20 February 2017.

The report contains a range of information, including projects due to be delivered in 2017 and those at various stages of advancement through planning, design and construction. It also includes information such as local authority area, project name, approved housing body name where applicable, the number of units and the status of each application in terms of its current level of advancement. The report can be accessed at the following link:  . Updates to this report will be published on a regular basis and will be available on the Rebuilding Ireland website .

I expect that a number of the projects listed for Kerry County Council will be completed in 2017 and others will commence on site during this year, as well as in subsequent years; the precise timing for the advancement of each of these projects is a matter for the Council in the first instance. Further project approvals are being added to the published list as they are developed by Kerry County Council and the other local authorities. 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.