Written answers

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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766. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the south Dublin county area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39386/17]

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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767. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the Dublin City Council area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39388/17]

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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768. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the Fingal County Council area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39387/17]

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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769. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39389/17]

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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770. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in County Wicklow by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39383/17]

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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771. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in County Meath by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39390/17]

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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772. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in County Kildare by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39382/17]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 766 to 772, inclusive, together.

Rebuilding Ireland has put in place the funding resources to accelerate the delivery of social housing for all local authorities. Critically, €5.35 billion in exchequer investment has been secured to support its implementation and to deliver 47,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisitions and leasing, over the period to 2021. This level of national funding to implement Rebuilding Ireland's targets means that funding is available to all local authorities to advance their housing delivery. 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/refurbishments and a significant proportion of these will involve new construction.

A comprehensive status report of social housing schemes for all local authority areas 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, delivering 10,000 units, their locations and also includes a range of information relating to their advancement, including those delivered during 2016 and to the end of Quarter 1 of 2017. It also shows 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 and tenanting, is a matter for the relevant local authority and approved housing body concerned, in the first instance.

Further project approvals are being added to the construction programme as they are developed by local authorities and approved housing bodies, 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.

In addition there are also a range of other social housing delivery methods that are being utilised alongside traditional construction, including harnessing vacant properties, purchasing suitable units from the market, and securing new properties under long-term lease agreements, the Rental Accommodation Scheme and the Housing Assistance Payment, all of which will be used to meet the 21,000 social housing solutions targeted for delivery this year.

Details on the number of social housing properties constructed, purchased and leased by local authorities and approved housing bodies, for letting to those on their social housing waiting lists, are published on my Department’s website at the following link:

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Information is currently being finalised in respect of quarter one of 2017 and will be published shortly, with information on quarter two 2017 to follow thereafter.

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