Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing scheme currently in hand or proposed in 2022 by each local authority by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3540/22]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses built by each local authority in 2021; the number proposed for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3541/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 313 and 314 together.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on all social housing delivery activity. This data is available to the end of Q3 2021 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.

A detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR) is published each quarter by my Department, which provides scheme level detail on new build social housing activity. The CSR provides details of the individual social housing new build projects, that make up the new build programme for each local authority. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Quarter 3 2021, and is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/feea9-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q3-2021/.

An excel version of this file can be downloaded at the following link: data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q3-2021?package_type=dataset.

The Affordable Housing Act 2021, the first ever standalone affordable housing legislation was enacted last July, establishing a basis for four 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 First Home 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.

To date, 65 Cost Rental homes have been tenanted across two separate developments (25 in Balbriggan, Fingal Co. Dublin and 40 in Leixlip, Co Kildare). Over 700 Cost Rental homes are scheduled to be delivered in 2022, across the local authorities with the most acute affordability constraints. The first Affordable Purchase homes delivered by local authorities are scheduled to be delivered in Cork next month. A second development of affordable purchase homes will be delivered by Fingal County Council in Lusk later this year.

My Department is currently liaising with local authorities to finalise affordable housing targets for the period 2022-2026.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for local authority housing by county; the plans to meet their requirements in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3542/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Detail on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The SSHA captures the total number of households qualified for social housing support across the country whose social housing need has not yet been met and helps better inform policy and plan for the delivery of the right types of social housing support. The most recently published summary for all counties, conducted in November 2020, is available at:

www.gov.ie/en/publication/970ea-summary-of-social-housing-assessments-2020-key-findings/#:~:text=The%20Summary%20of%20Social%20Housing,is%20not%20currently%20being%20met.

The 2021 SSHA process is underway and I expect to publish the summary report before end Q1, 2022.

Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. Under Housing for All, 47,600 new build social homes will be delivered between 2022 and 2026, and individual targets have been provided to each local authority for this period.

A key action under Housing for Allrequired local authorities to prepare a Housing Delivery Action Plan, setting out details of social and affordable housing delivery over the next five years. All local authorities submitted their plans to me in December and my Department is engaging with them on these plans, in particular their alignment with the targets and policy objectives set out in Housing for All. Plans will be published in Quarter 2 and my Department will continue to engage with local authorities to support their implementation.