Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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1980. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date with the housing units identified in County Sligo in the Rebuilding Ireland programme; the estimated completion dates for these new local authority housing projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37345/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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A comprehensive status list of social housing schemes nationally, including projects for Sligo County Council, can be accessed at the following link: .  This status report covers the period up to the end of Quarter 1 of 2017 and lists 607 approved social housing construction projects and their locations and contains a range of information relating to their advancement, including those delivered in 2016 and those progressing through planning, design and construction. Details in respect of Quarter 2 of 2017 will be published shortly on the Rebuilding Ireland website.  

These 607 projects are funded under a range of different initiatives such as local authority construction, turnkey developments, rapid delivery, regeneration programmes and construction and turnkey developments by Approved Housing Bodies.  The precise timing for the advancement of each of these projects, including completion dates, is a matter for the relevant local authorities and AHBs concerned, in the first instance.  However, within the overall 21,000 social housing solutions targeted for delivery this year, some 4,500 of these will be delivered through new builds/acquisitions and a significant proportion of these will involve new construction. 

Further project approvals are being added to the construction programme as they are developed by local authorities and AHBs, updated details of which will be published on a regular basis. 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.