Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of each of the 3,322 housing units that were approved for construction in 2015 and 2016 as listed in appendix 2 of his Department's housing action report of April 2016, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40671/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Since the publication in April 2016 of the Housing Action Report Laying the Foundations referred to in the question, the Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, Rebuilding Ireland has further enhanced the funding resources to accelerate the delivery of social housing for all local authorities. Critically, €5.35 billion in Exchequer investment has been made available 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 social housing construction programme, including projects detailed in appendix 2 of the April 2016 report. Substantial numbers of additional construction projects have been added to the social housing delivery programme since then and we are now publishing, on a quarterly basis, a comprehensive status report of all social housing construction schemes for all local authority areas. These reports show details such as the project locations and a range of information relating to their advancement, including those delivered and those progressing through planning, design and construction.

The most recent of these reports covers the period up to the end of Quarter 1 of 2017 and lists circa 600 approved social housing construction schemes, delivering over 10,000 units. The report can be accessed at the following link: .Details in respect of Quarter 2 of 2017 will be published shortly.

These 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 authorities 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. 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.