Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the commitment made on page 54 of Rebuilding Ireland to extend the national housing strategy for persons with a disability. [33146/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The National Housing Strategy for people with a Disability (NHSPWD) 2011-2016 and associated National Implementation Framework were jointly published by my Department and the Department of Health. They set out the Government’s broad framework for the delivery of housing for people with disabilities and were developed as part of a coherent framework in conjunction with the Government’s mental health policy and congregated settings report. Building on the Programme for a Partnership Government commitment to meet the housing needs of people with disabilities, the NHSPWD has been extended to 2020 to continue to deliver on its aims.

Implementation of identified actions in the NHSPWD is being driven primarily by the Housing Agency by means of a dedicated sub-group comprising representatives from my Department, the Health Service Executive (HSE), Department of Health, local authorities, the Irish Council for Social Housing and various disability representative organisations. The Housing subgroup, established in 2012, is progressing a range of priority actions and will continue to progress this work under the extended timeframe. An Implementation Monitoring Group (IMG) was established in 2012 to monitor and report on progress, and has met on ten occasions since then with a further meeting scheduled for October. Three progress reports on implementation covering the period September 2012 to December 2016, have been published by the IMG to date. These comprehensive reports are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

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The IMG is chaired by a senior official of my Department and comprises representatives from relevant Government Departments and agencies and disability organisations: details of current IMG members are set out in Appendix 1 of the Third Progress Report available at the above link.

Progress on implementation of the NHSPWD will also be updated in the context of quarterly published progress reports on actions under Rebuilding Ireland.