Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capital assistance scheme allocation in 2019; the number of bed spaces provided under the allocation; and the average capital cost per bed space. [24862/20]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding allocation under the capital assistance scheme for accommodation for victims of domestic violence in 2019; the number of bed spaces provided; and the average capital cost per bed space. [24863/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 337 and 338 together.

Under my Department’s Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS), capital funding of up to 100% of project costs may be advanced by local authorities to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to provide housing for specific categories of housing need, including for older people, people with a disability and people who are homeless.

CAS funding in 2019 was €97.7 million and in that year, a total of 570 new units of accommodation was delivered. This expenditure in 2019 related to accommodation completed in that year, projects completing in later years and residual costs relating to previously completed units.

With regard to the average capital cost per bed space, cost information on the delivery of social homes 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.

While there was no specific funding allocation under CAS for accommodation for victims of domestic violence in 2019, 17 units of accommodation for victims of domestic violence were provided in 2019.