Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on local authority housing waiting lists in counties Meath and Westmeath, respectively, at the end of each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date 2021, in tabular form. [16072/21]

Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on local authority housing waiting lists for one-bedroom homes in counties Meath and Westmeath, respectively, at the end of each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date 2021, in tabular form. [16073/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 and 70 together.

Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area is provided in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The SSHA has been conducted on an annual basis since 2016, prior to which it was carried out tri-annually, the last of which was completed in 2013. My Department does not hold data for 2015 as no SSHA was conducted in that year.

The most recent summary, conducted in November 2020 shows that 61,880 households were assessed as qualified for and being in need of social housing support. This represents a decrease of 6,813 households or 9.9% on the last assessment in June 2019. Since 2016, the numbers have decreased from 91,600 to 61,880, a reduction of 32.4%.

Below is the link to the summary report for 2020 which includes breakdowns by each local authority, including Meath and Westmeath, across a range of categories. In relation to the specific question posed regarding a breakdown by one bedroom homes, information of this exact type is not held by my Department.

Tables 2.4 and A1.4 provide details on household size. It should be noted that the category “Household Composition” in the previous reports, was replaced in the 2019 report by the “Household Size” profile category which provides more granular level of detail regarding the number of persons in each household type.

SSHA Report 2020

Numbers for those local authorities for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 are provided in the corresponding tables of the respective reports for those years, the links for which are provided below.

SSHA Report 2016

SSHA Report 2017

SSHA Report 2018

SSHA Report 2019

Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority-owned housing units in counties Meath and Westmeath, respectively, by type, that is, one- and two-bedroom and so on, at the end of each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date 2021, in tabular form. [16074/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The detailed detailed information requested by the Deputy relating to the social housing stock of Meath and Westmeath County Councils, is not collected by my Department. However, the National Oversight and Audit Commission published a report in May 2017 titled 'Local Authority Housing Management and Maintenance Review' which does provide a profile of the local authority housing stock and in particular, at Table 2.2, sets out 'the Number of Bedrooms in Local Authority Housing' and at Figure 2.4 'the Percentage of Housing Units by No. of Bedrooms in each Local Authority'. 

The report can be accessed at the following link: .

Further detailed information on local authority housing stock should be available from the local authorities themselves.

Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority-owned housing units in counties Meath and Westmeath, respectively, that were empty by type, that is, one- and two-bedroom and so on, at the end of each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date 2021, in tabular form. [16075/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Vacancy levels in local authority housing stock will fluctuate over time, as tenancy surrender and re-letting of stock is an ongoing process. 

Statistics in relation to the social housing stock are published by the National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC) in their Annual Reports on Performance Indicators in Local Authorities. These reports provide a range of information in relation to social housing stock, including the level of vacancy broken down by local authority. Reports from 2014 to 2019 are available on the NOAC website at the following link: