Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of new social homes by construction over acquisition commenced in line with the Programme for Government objective and priority to increase social housing stock by over 50,000 over a five-year period through a focus on new builds in each of the 31 local authorities since 1 June 2020 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20741/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Increasing the supply of public, social and affordable homes is a central commitment in the Programme for Government. In Budget 2021, we backed this objective with funding of €3.3 billion for the delivery of housing. Subject to the impact of COVID, this funding will support the delivery of 12,750 new social homes. A major focus of this investment is the delivery of new build homes, with an overall target of 9,500 new homes. The Government will be publishing a new housing strategy this year, which will set out details of social housing delivery for 2021-2025, including social housing targets for 2022 onwards.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on all social housing delivery activity. This data is available to the end of 2020 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link:

My Department has also published the Quarter 4 2020 Social Housing Construction Status Report, which provides details of all social housing developments under construction in each local authority. The report is available at the following link:

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/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q4-2020