Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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555. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V units leased in 2019 by local authority. [17255/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, requires that a developer must provide up to 10% of a site for development, that has the benefit of planning permission, to the local authority for the purposes of social housing at a price equivalent to the existing use value of the lands on the date on which planning permission was granted.

The Part V provisions were amended in 2015 to permit the obligation to be met by way of a grant of a lease of housing units to the Local Authority, either on the site subject to the planning application or on any other land within its functional area. Where the Part V agreement is for the leasing of units to the Local Authority from the developer, the net monetary value must be realised in the form of a discount from the payable rent over the period of the lease. Such a discount is in addition to the normal discount on the open market rent obtained by the Local Authority through a lease agreement with a property owner.

Currently, my Department operates two leasing schemes that can be utilised for the purposes of Part V agreements – the Long Term Social Housing Leasing Scheme and the Enhanced Long Term Social Housing Leasing Scheme.  Both of these schemes are funded under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP).

The details of Part V leased units delivered, by local authority are set out in the following table. My Department is currently collecting data for Q1 2019.