Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons with disabilities and families including persons with disabilities that were on social housing waiting list for each local authority in the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2019; and the number on such a list to 31 May 2020, in tabular form. [20147/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA) has been conducted on an annual basis since 2016, prior to which it was carried out once every three years. The last Summary under the triennial approach took place in  2013, and, as there was no assessment carried out in 2014 or 2015, my Department has no data available for those years.

The links to the information requested for the years 2016 to 2019 were provided by my Department in a response to Question No. 1240 of 3 June 2020. 

While the SSHA is normally conducted in or around June, given the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on local authorities and nature of the work involved in conducting the SSHA, the SSHA for 2020 was deferred to allow local authorities to continue to focus their resources on immediate priorities. However, recognising that the SSHA is a very important part of the evidence base for housing policy at both local authority and national level, I have directed local authorities to carry out the SSHA 2020 in November 2020.