Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the reason for the delay in publishing the revised local authority social housing construction targets; if they will be published; and, if so, when they will be published. [16455/18]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the reason for the delay in publishing the quarter 1 2018 social housing construction pipeline report; if this report will be published; and if so, when it will be published. [16457/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1613 and 1615 together.

At the second Housing Summit, held in January of this year, I asked each local authority Chief Executive to furnish a report, confirming and setting out how their local authority intended to deliver on its social housing targets over the coming years.

My Department has reviewed these returns, re-calibrated 2018 targets for each local authority having regard to the overall national ambition and also housing capacity at local level. I will be publishing the outcome of this exercise shortly, which will include details of individual local authority social housing targets for build, acquisition and leasing over the course of 2018-2021.

The process involved reconciliation and comparison with the 2017 social housing output and involved significant analysis of the construction pipeline currently in place, particularly the pipeline of projects on-site and due for delivery in 2018. Given the detail, and volume of projects involved, this exercise was necessarily time consuming.

The Q4 2017 Construction Status Report will be published shortly, along with the final 2017 Social Housing Output and the outcome of the targets exercise referred to above.