Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses obtained by Dublin City Council in 2020. [28381/21]

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.

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.

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.

Statistics on the delivery of social housing by each local authority, including by 2^ndhand acquisitions up to Q4 2020, are available on my Department’s website at the following links:

Construction Status Report:

rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-obrien-publishes-2020-social-housing-statistics/

2^ndHand Acquisitions:

www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/#local-authority-acquisition .