Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing applicants on local authority lists. [25714/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The purpose of the SSHA is to capture the total number of households qualified for social housing support across the country whose social housing need has not yet been met, in order to better inform policy and plan for the delivery of the right types of social housing support.

The most recent summary, conducted in June 2019, shows that 68,693 households were assessed as qualified for, and being in need of, social housing support. This represents a decrease of 3,165 households or 4.4% on the last assessment in June 2018. Since 2016, the numbers have decreased from 91,600 to 68,693, a reduction of 25%.

Below is the link to the summary report for 2019 which includes breakdowns by each local authority, across a range of categories.

Report 2019

https://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/publications/files/sha_summary_2019_dec_2019_web_1.pdf.

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.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of building council housing on publicly-owned land that is fully serviced. [25715/20]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of building 1 to 4-bed homes on fully serviced publicly-owned land. [25716/20]

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour)
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92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four-bedroomed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all in costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [25774/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides Unit Cost Ceilings (UCCs) to each local authority as a key benchmark for the development and costing of new build social housing. The tables below outline the current UCC values for houses and apartments being developed by local authorities.

HOUSES

APARTMENTS