Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent)
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684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units to be completed in County Limerick in 2021, in tabular form [40332/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department publishes a Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR) 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 CSR for Quarter 2 will be collated in the coming weeks and published thereafter.

Since 2016, 1,422 homes across 110 schemes have been completed in Limerick City and County. There are also 638 homes across 35 schemes currently ‘Onsite’ with a further 326 homes across 23 schemes at various stages of the approval process as set out in the latest CSR.

Social Housing Targets were issued to each local authority in December 2020. Limerick was set a target of 525 homes to be delivered in 2021, including 441 new build homes. Due to the public health restrictions introduced to combat the spread of COVID, there have been significant delays to many construction projects, which will impact on output this year. However, I have asked local authorities to take all possible measures to ensure that the maximum number of homes are completed in 2021.