Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes completed and the number of social homes in the pipeline availing of the one-stage approval process; and the number of those delivered to date and in the pipeline to date that have availed of the one-stage process since the threshold was increased. [34465/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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When first introduced in 2018, the single stage approval process applied to social housing projects up to the value of €2m but I increased this to €6m in September 2020, to give further options to local authorities.

77 projects delivering 216 homes have availed of the single stage option to date, of which 43 projects delivering 130 homes are either onsite or completed. Since the threshold was increased in September last, 23 projects for 43 units have availed of the process.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties offered, purchased and tenanted under the Minister's call for housing in August 2020. [34466/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The ‘Call for Housing 2020’ was launched on 21 July 2020 as a short-term intervention to examine opportunities in the property market to secure additional properties for social housing. The campaign was run on behalf of my Department by the Housing Agency, in consultation with the local authorities.

To 28 June 2021, 311 properties were offered for sale to the Housing Agency including 42 properties also offered for leasing. A further 138 properties were offered for leasing or for Rental Accommodation Scheme arrangements. Of the properties offered for sale, 45 proceeded to sale, with 32 of these purchases completed to date. A further number of properties submitted to the Housing Agency are being pursued by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies independently.

The allocation of these properties to households on the social housing waiting lists is a matter for the relevant local authorities and my Department does not hold details in this regard.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Q1 and Q2 social housing pipeline reports will be published. [34467/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department publishes a Social Housing Construction Status Report each quarter, which contains details of all social housing developments completed, under construction or at the planning and design stage in each local authority area. The most recent report, published on 28 May 2021, covers the period up to the end of Quarter 1 2021 and is available at the following link: rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-obrien-publishes-social-housing-construction-status-report-for-q1-2021/.

The data pertaining to the Construction Status Report for Quarter 2 will be collated in the coming weeks and published thereafter.