Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the affordable housing targets for the four Dublin local authorities for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38370/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Affordable Housing Bill 2021 which has now cleared all stages in the Oireachtas is the first ever stand-alone affordable housing legislation. The provisions of the Bill establish the basis for 4 new affordable housing measures. These measures will deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to put affordability at the heart of the housing system and prioritise the increased supply of affordable homes through (1) delivering affordable homes on local authority lands, (2) the introduction of a new form of tenure in Cost Rental, (3) a new affordable purchase shared equity scheme and (4) expanding Part V planning requirements to increase the 10% contribution requirement to 20% and to apply it to cost rental as well as social and affordable housing.

Government will very shortly publish a new 5 year ‘Housing for All’ strategy which will include ambitious affordable home delivery targets for these schemes.

Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on long-term leasing by the four Dublin local authorities for the years 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38371/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Funding provided under the long term leasing schemes to the four Dublin local authorities, from 2019 to end Q1 2021, is set out in the table below. The data is based on the claims received in the Department from each local authority.

Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on housing adaptations in Dublin City Council in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38372/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the funding provided by my Department to Dublin City Council in respect of the Disabled Persons Grants Scheme/Improvement Works in Lieu (DPG/IWIL) for local authority tenants, including details of the 10% local authority contribution, can be found in the following table:

My Department allocated funding of €23.7 million in May of this year to local authorities to carry out all works that could be completed this year under the 2021 DPG/IWIL Programme. From this, Dublin City Council was allocated €2.5 million and taking the local authority contribution into account this brings the funding available to €2.79 million. Local authorities are currently progressing their 2021 work programmes but it will be later this year before significant recoupment claims are lodged with my Department. Full details in relation to the drawdown of funding for Dublin City Council in 2021 will be available early in 2022.

Separately, funding of €75 million is available nationally in 2021 for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability scheme, in respect of private houses. Local authorities fund 20% of the overall budget from their own resources with the balance of 80% funded by the exchequer. Dublin City Council have drawn down a total of €2,181,752 in grant funding from my Department up to 30 June 2021. Details of the funding drawn down for the grants up to 2020, for all local authorities including Dublin City Council, are available on my Department's website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/social-and-affordble/other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics