Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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1369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units built or acquired in Rush, County Dublin, in each of the years 2015 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018. [36254/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Rebuilding Ireland is focused on accelerating the delivery of housing, with an investment of more than €6 billion to deliver 50,000 social housing units through build, refurbishment, acquisition and leasing, over the period to 2021.

A high level of progress is already being made in meeting Rebuilding Ireland’s targets. Over 19,000 households had their social housing need met in 2016 through all delivery streams, while for 2017, the output has increased to almost 26,000.  At the end of Q1 2018, some 6,100 additional housing solutions had been provided across all local authorities in addition to 930 construction schemes in place delivering over 14,000 homes. Details of the 930 schemes, including those in the Fingal County Council area, are contained in the Construction Status Report for Q1 2018, which is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link:

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This Report for Q1 2018 shows a significant level of activity being undertaken by Fingal County Council, in conjunction with Approved Housing Bodies, with 34 projects at various stages of progress, which will deliver in the region of 760 homes by 2020.  My Department and the Council continue to engage actively and meet regularly to oversee progress on the implementation and delivery of projects.

As a housing authority, Fingal County Council is responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their area and for the development of appropriate responses to meet this need. The Council also acquires properties to address specific needs and, accordingly, has acquired 16 units in Rush since 2015. It is open to the Council to submit further proposals for housing in this area.

Detailed data in relation to social housing delivery by each local authority, for the years 2015 to end Q1 2018, is available on my Department's website at:

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