Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the housing list of Leitrim County Council on 31 December in each of the years 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53266/18]

Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the housing list for Leitrim County Council who have been on it for periods (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53278/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 671 and 672 together.

Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are provided in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recently conducted SSHA, carried out in June 2018, details the number of households on all local authority waiting lists as at 11 June 2018 (the count date) and is available on my Department’s website at the link below. The SSHA report includes breakdowns by each local authority across a range ofcategories including the length of time spent on the record of qualified households (waiting lists):

Report 2018

Report 2018

The SSHA has been conducted on an annual basis since 2016 prior to which it was carried out tri-annually, the last of which was completed in 2013. Results from all available years sought commencing in 2008 are available on my Department’s website at the links below:

Report 2008

Report 2011

Report 2013

Report 2016

Report 2017

It is important to note that only the results of the 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2018 summaries are directly comparable with each other. These summaries were carried out using a standardised methodology as specified by the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011. Previous summaries were not carried out under the current standardised assessment regime for social housing support which came into effect on 1 April 2011.

It should also be noted that the SSHA is a point in time exercise and does not necessarily reflect the dynamic nature of entry to and exit from the list.