Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 26 October 2017, if he will address the anomaly between housing targets and the targets outlined in the social housing report 2017 published on 15 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3119/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The information provided in response to Parliamentary Question Number 45 of 26 October 2017 included the figure of 3,200 as the target for 2017 delivery of social housing via build activity. As set out in Rebuilding Ireland, build activity includes local authority and AHB new build projects, properties constructed for social housing through Part V and refurbished properties/Voids.

In my recent report on Housing Delivery in 2017, the categorisation and format of which is consistent with the output report provided in 2016, the figure of 3,200 was broken down further. The target for local authority and AHB new build projects, plus properties constructed for social housing through Part V for 2017, was 2,434, with a  total of 2,245 new homes built last year – or 92% of the target output achieved. The target for “voids” for 2017 was 766; however, 1,757 voids were in fact brought back in to the social housing stock.

Taken together, both of these categories make up the overall build target of 3,200 for 2017, consistent with the targets set out in Rebuilding Ireland.  The actual number of new homes delivered through direct build and refurbishment of void homes in 2017 was 4,002.