Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital funding to be provided to Cavan County Council for housing in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48549/17]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital funding to be provided to Monaghan county council for housing in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48550/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together.

Nationally, funding of €1.9bn is available for social housing delivery in 2018. This is an increase of 46% over the funding of €1.3 billion available in 2017.

There is no precise amount of capital funding notified to individual local authorities for the delivery of housing in a particular year. Authorities can avail of the funding provided through my Department's social housing capital investment programme to deliver new social housing through both new constructions projects and the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments.

Proposals for new social housing schemes are developed and bought forward by the local authorities and the drawdown of funding is directly linked to the advancement of delivery. 

Rebuilding Ireland (the Government's plan to tackle housing and homelessness) aims to provide 50,000 additional social housing homes in the period 2016-2021 and, overall, funding of €6 billion is available to support this. Targets for delivery will be notified to individual authorities shortly and my Department will then engage with each authority in relation to the mix of delivery mechanisms to be used to ensure that targets are reached.