Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)
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29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has met with Fingal County Council on the delivery of public housing. [52261/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department and I are in regular contact with all local authorities, including Fingal County Council, in order to accelerate and progress the social housing delivery programme. 

In relation to social housing construction activity in general, my Department publishes comprehensive status reports on a quarterly basis, of social housing construction schemes for all local authority areas, showing details such as their locations and a range of information relating to their advancement.  The most recent of these reports covers the period up to the end of quarter 3 of 2017. It includes information on the delivery of over 12,000 new social housing homes, which are currently approved and progressing through planning, design, and construction, or have been completed in 2016 and to the end of quarter 3 of 2017.  The report can be accessed at the following link:

In the case of Fingal County Council, the report includes details of Fingal County Council's substantial programme of over 35 projects, which are at various stages of advancement and which will yield in the region of 850 units, once completed.  

While I have met each of the four Chief Executives of Dublin local authorities in my own Department's offices on a number of occasions this year, I have also met with the Chief Executive of Fingal and his senior management team in relation to accelerating housing delivery, both public and private, in the Council's offices in Swords. More recently, I had the opportunity, along with An Taoiseach, to witness first-hand the progress being made on the ground by the Council at developments such as Hansfield, Clonsilla and Wellview, Mulhuddart. I met with Council management and local representatives on that occasion, and I plan to visit further sites in the very near future.

I can assure the Deputy that my Department will continue to engage actively with all local authorities, including Fingal County Council, to deliver social housing through all available avenues, with a particular emphasis on additional construction projects.