Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of direct builds of social housing by Dublin City Council in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [22184/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The delivery of housing supports is a key priority of Government and this is reflected in the Programme for Government commitment to increase the social housing stock nationally by more than 50,000, with a key emphasis on delivering new build homes. We are ambitious to ramp up the delivery at local authority level and we are committed to developing housing on public land.

My Department provides both capital and current funding to local authorities across a range of funding initiatives to assist them in providing homes for families and individuals on their social housing waiting lists.  To provide transparency on the new social housing projects being advanced, each quarter my Department publishes a Social Housing Construction Status Report and updated Social Housing Delivery statistics for all years from 1999. The report for Quarter 4, 2020 is available at the following link: .  These quarterly reports provide details of the social housing construction schemes completed and those in the pipeline for all local authorities including Dublin City Council.

The Government investment for the delivery of all housing programmes this year is €3.3 billion which, subject to the impact of Covid-related restrictions on the construction sector, is intended to support the delivery of 12,750 new social homes through build, acquisition and leasing.  The major focus of this investment is the delivery of new build social homes, with an overall target of 9,500 new homes.