Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) in tabular form. [27732/21]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if statistical information in relation to the allocation of funding will be provided (details supplied). [27734/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 274 and 275 together.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity. This data provides a breakdown of social housing delivery across a range of mechanisms to the end of 2020 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.

In addition to the statistical overview of activity in each local authority, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report is published each quarter which provides scheme level detail on new build activity. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Q4 2020 and is available at the following link: rebuildingireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Final-Report.pdf. This is sorted by local authority, and gives a list of the individual projects that make up the new Build programme for that local authority.

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.data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q4-2020.

Total expenditure on the delivery of housing programmes in 2020 was €2.63 billion with funding of €3.3 billion available in 2021. This investment will ensure that the housing needs of over 28,500 households are met in 2021, including, subject to the impact of COVID, 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.

Specific details in respect of the 2021 capital and current funding provisions for housing programmes and associated outputs are set out in the Budget 2021 Expenditure Report which is available at the following link: budget.gov.ie/Budgets/2021/Documents/Budget/Part%20II%20-%20Expenditure%20Allocations%202021.pdf.

In addition, details of the 2021 housing output targets are available as part of the 2021 Revised Estimates at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/e20037-revised-estimates/#2021.

Finally, details of 2020 housing outputs and activity impacts are available in the Public Service 2020 Performance Report which is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/61d3f-public-service-performance-reports/.

Specifically in relation to the capital funding for people with a disability and older people, this is a new funding stream in 2021 for a pilot project under the Housing Options for our Ageing Population Joint Policy Statement. The project will allow a house owned by an older person to be extended or reconfigured to allow them to take in a relative who is on the housing list or, alternatively, to allow a family member to take in an older relative. The pilot scheme is currently under development with an expected commencement date in 2022.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 705 of 21 April 2021, the estimated cost of upgrading all developer provided water infrastructure in the 566 residential developments. [27735/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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On 21 September 2020, I announced allocations under the new multi-annual capital investment programme - the Multi-annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme 2019-2021 - for the progressive resolution of housing estates with developer provided water services infrastructure, to enable the taking in charge of these estates. This, the first funding cycle of a new multi-annual programme, runs to the end of 2021.

The focus of the first multi-annual programme is on estates in towns and villages where the resolution is to connect their water services to the public networks. The programme will also support a number of pilot projects where connection is not feasible in the immediate future. These pilot projects, together with a major study currently being undertaken by Irish Water, will inform future policy considerations on resolving sub-standard developer provided infrastructure with sustainable solutions.

The Irish Water study, which is scheduled to be completed at the end of this year, will also allow my Department to, working with Irish Water, determine detailed costings on site specific solutions which can then be used to develop an overall estimated cost to fully resolve estates with developer provided water services infrastructure.