Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that has been allocated annually for the past five years to specifically provide social and affordable housing on offshore islands. [23802/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The responsibility to develop social and affordable housing within their operational areas, including offshore islands, rests with the individual local authorities, working in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies. Targets are provided to each local authority for social housing delivery and it is a matter for the authority to decide on locations for new social housing based on their housing need. Accordingly, my Department does not allocate funding or set delivery targets for new social housing on the islands and it's a matter for the local authorities to make decisions in that regard.

Statistics on social housing delivery by each local authority are available on my Department's website at the following link: . Further information should be available from the individual local authorities on their social housing delivery and the locations involved.

To provide further information on recent and planned social housing delivery, my Department publishes a quarterly 'Construction Status Report' which provides scheme level detail on new build social housing activity in all local authorities. This provides information on the locations of the social housing projects listed. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Q4 2020 and is available at the following link: .

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his policy on the provision of housing on offshore islands. [23803/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Implementation of national housing policy is a matter for individual local authorities in accordance with their Housing Strategy and based on their estimate of the different types and amount of housing need throughout their administrative area.

In relation to social housing, responsibility for its delivery within their operational area, including on offshore islands, rests with the individual local authorities, working in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies. Targets are provided to each local authority for social housing delivery and it is a matter for the authority to decide on locations for new social housing based on their estimate of housing need. My Department does not set specific delivery targets or allocate funding for new social housing specifically related to the islands and it is a matter for the local authorities to make decisions in that regard.