Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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1811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases for social housing units completed in 2017. [1578/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The Government has set out an ambitious set of targets for the delivery of social housing to the period to 2021 in its Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan. A commitment to deliver 50,000 new social housing homes through a range of delivery mechanisms is being supported by a multi-annual Exchequer commitment totalling €6.5 billion over the period of the plan. These targets will be achieved using a combination of building, purchasing and leasing high quality properties to meet the needs of households on local authority waiting lists around the country.

Of the 50,000 social housing homes to be delivered under Rebuilding Ireland, 10,000 will be leased by local authorities and approved housing bodies under leasing arrangements from a range of different sources. A total of 3,500 properties are targeted to be achieved using the Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) which harnesses the potential of existing vacant stock and brings it back into use for social housing. The remaining 6,500 properties to be leased are intended to be secured under long-term lease arrangements from a variety of sources.

Yesterday, I published the provisional social housing output figures for 2017. These details are available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link: .

This report identifies that the social housing leasing target of 600 homes under Rebuilding Ireland was exceeded, with 798 new social housing homes being delivered through leasing schemes.

Data on social housing leasing, funded by my Department, in respect of all local authorities to end Q3 2017 is published on my Department’s website at the following link:.  Similar data in relation to Q4 2017 will be published shortly.