Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount Longford and Westmeath county councils spent on housing in terms of current expenditure in relation to the rental accommodation scheme, leasing, the housing assistance payment, HAP, and emergency accommodation; and the amount spent in terms of capital expenditure purchasers, voids brought back to use and construction of new dwellings by amount and number of houses in the past seven years, in tabular form. [26126/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, my Department provides funding to local authorities for the delivery of a range of housing programmes and supports. The details requested in respect of Longford County Council and Westmeath County Council are set out in the following table.

Longford County Council

Westmeath County Council

Detailed data in relation to social housing delivery across all schemes by each local authority, for the years 2011 to 2017, is available on my Department's website at the following .

The Quarter 4 2017 Construction Status Report, available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the link below, provides project-level detail on the existing pipeline in place in all local authorities. The report is based on activity up to end 2017 and, over the course of 2018, further projects will have been moving through from approval to on-site, with additional projects also being added to the pipeline. These will be reflected in the next quarterly report, as contained in the following .

Exchequer funding under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 is also provided to housing authorities on a regional basis towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services. Under the funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of services from their own resources. Housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the funding arrangements with my Department. Therefore, the exact amounts spent by housing authorities on homeless services, as well as the types of accommodation, are a matter for those authorities. Westmeath and Longford Counties are included in the Midlands region, along with Laois and Offaly, for the purposes of homelessness administration, with Westmeath County Council as the lead authority for the region. A breakdown of the funding recouped to the Midlands Region since 2013 is available and set out in the following table.

Funding under Section 10 of the Housing Act, 1988 to the Midlands Region