Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new national housing strategy for disabled people will be published; if the strategy will move beyond the single strategy of decongregation and include the provision of supported living with targets and actual numbers in order that it can be monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55041/21]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The current National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability  (NHSPWD) 2011-2021 is a joint strategy with the Department of Health.

A first consultation phase for the development a new joint Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Department of Health Strategy to 2027 for the housing of people with disabilities was launched earlier this year, with a research phase running in parallel.

A second consultation phase took place last month and preparation of the new Strategy is continuing.

A new joint Strategy will be in place by 1 January 2022.