Written answers

Wednesday, 9 September 2020

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Housing Data

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of turnkey social housing units per unit by local authority in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular form. [22819/20]

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of SHIP social housing units per unit by local authority in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular form. [22820/20]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 125 and 126 together.

Cost information on the delivery of social homes through the local authority construction and turnkey programmes is collated by my Department at development level rather than at granular individual housing unit level. Disaggregating such development level information into individual unit costs, across all of the various types of units, would require significant analysis on unit characteristics such as size, type, number of bedrooms, site costs, abnormal costs, fees, etc. to derive an accurate reflection of an average cost by unit.

My Department is working with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on a Spending Review of the Social Housing Build programme for the period 2016-2019, a report on which is expected to be published later this year and will be publicly available. As part of this work, the Departments are working to extrapolate unit costs from the raw data provided by the local authorities.

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