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Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Local Authority Housing Data

Photo of Seán SherlockSeán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that will be built by the local authority or its agents in County Cork in 2019. [4011/19]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Statistics on the social housing properties constructed, purchased and leased by local authorities, including Cork City and County Councils, are published on an ongoing basis on my Department’s website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision.These statistics are updated on a quarterly basis. Data for Q4 2018 is now being validated and will be published as soon as possible, with data for each successive quarter of 2019 made available over the course of the year.

A detailed breakdown of the social housing construction programme by local authority area, is set out in the Social Housing Construction Status Report which is published on a quarterly basis. The report covering the period up to end Quarter 3 of 2018 is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link:

.The report covering to end Q4 of 2018 will be published shortly.

The report includes the activity of Cork City and County Councils on the construction of new social housing, including those schemes already on site and under construction, those at the final pre-construction stage and those progressing through the various stages of planning, design and procurement. These schemes also include those underway on the part of Approved Housing Bodies working with the Cork Councils. Taken together, these projects will form the bulk of social housing starts and completions over the course of 2019, with further projects being added to the pipeline on an ongoing basis.

I will be publishing social housing targets for 2019 for all local authorities, including Cork City and County Councils, in the near future and the progress of each authority against these targets will also be published on my Department's website on a quarterly basis. This transparency allows all stakeholders to view the targets and the progress of each local authority in delivering social housing for their areas.

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