Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the mechanism for applying for the capital assistance scheme, CAS; the total amount available in 2017 under this scheme; and the available sum for County Louth for 2017. [20554/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Applications to deliver new social housing under the Capital Assistance Scheme should be made by an Approved Housing Body to the relevant local authority. As with all social housing projects, it is a matter for the local authority, as the housing authority for the area, to prioritise projects on the basis of how they meet the area's housing need.

The 2017 funding provision for the Scheme nationally is €66 million. Financial allocations are not made to individual local authorities as funding delivery happens in line with project delivery. There are already over 1,000 new social homes approved for construction under the Capital Assistance Scheme and these are being implemented by the relevant Approved Housing Bodies and local authorities. Funding is drawn down as these projects are advanced and I am keen to see them move forward and deliver the housing as quickly as possible.