Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of spending by each local authority on new social housing above and below the €6 million single stage approval process threshold; and if the breakdown will include the number of schemes, number of homes and the spend involved. [6201/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I understand that the Deputy is referring to social housing construction expenditure and activity in the period since January 2019.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity. This data, which includes a breakdown of social housing delivery across a range of mechanisms, is available to the end of Quarter 3 2020. Data for Quarter 4 2020 is currently being compiled and will be published in the coming weeks.  This data is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: .

In addition to the statistical overview of activity in each local authority, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR) is published each quarter.  The CSR provides details of individual build projects in each local authority. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Q3 2020 and is available at the following link: 

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A version of this file can be downloaded at the following link and used for various analysis in terms of stage of activity, location, quarter of completion, number of homes etc.

https://data.gov.ie/en_GB/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q3-2020. 

In relation to the single-stage process, there are 37 social housing projects that are on site or completed, having used the single stage process. . In addition, there are a further 22 projects that are in proposal stage, one of these, a proposal for 11 new homes in Fingal, which would otherwise have used the four-stage process, has now been included in the single stage process since the increase in the limit from €2m to €6m.

Social housing construction is funded under a range of different initiatives such as local authority construction, turnkey developments, rapid delivery, PPP and regeneration programmes and through construction and turnkey developments by Approved Housing Bodies.The funding provided by my Department to each local authority in 2019 in respect of build programmes is set out in the table below.  In addition, over €1.03 billion was spent in 2020 on the delivery of new social housing through build programmes.  The full analysis of 2020 expenditure by each local authority is being carried out by my Department and will be provided to the Deputy when completed.