James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans of his Department to provide social and affordable housing in an area (details supplied). [12136/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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. Over 300,000 new homes will be built by the end of 2030, including a projected 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Social housing build and lease targets for the period 2022 - 2026 issued to local authorities in September 2021.

The social housing build and lease targets for Cork City Council and Cork County Council are set out below. 

My Department publishes a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR) each quarter, which provides scheme level detail on new build activity. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Quarter 3 2021 and is available at the following link: . The CSR provides details of the individual projects that make up the social housing new build programme for each local authority. 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, established 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.

At a national level, 2,550 Affordable Purchase homes and 1,580 Cost Rental homes are targeted for delivery for 2022. Annual targets will increase incrementally in subsequent years. These homes will be delivered by the local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and the Land Development Agency.

Delivery of affordable housing will be underpinned by local authorities' Housing Delivery Action Plans. Each local authority submitted a Plan to me in December 2021, and my Department has been engaging with local authorities on the Plans.  The Housing Delivery Action Plans will be published in Quarter 2 and will set out details of affordable delivery in each local authority.

The first Affordable Purchase homes delivered through the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme will be made available in Boherboy, Cork City later this month. Cork City Council indicated the prices to be €218,000 and €243,000 for a 3-bedroom dwelling. Two separate Cost Rental schemes, managed by Clúid and Respond, will be provided in Cork City and will be available in the second half of this year.

The First Home shared equity scheme will be available nationally on a demand-led basis. This scheme will primarily support first-time buyers purchasing new homes through the private market. I expect that a significant proportion of First Home supported home purchases will be located in Cork, in proportion to the market for newly constructed homes.

Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the plans of his Department to deliver social housing in County Tipperary between 2022 and 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11862/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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. This includes the delivery of an average of 10,000 new social homes and 6,000 affordable homes each year. Over 300,000 new homes will be built by the end of 2030, including a projected 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5bn in funding through the Housing Finance Agency, over a five year period. 

Social housing build and lease targets for the period 2022 - 2026 issued to local authorities in September 2021.  The social housing new build targets for Tipperary are set out in the table below.

Under Housing for All, each local authority, including Tipperary County Council were required to prepare a Housing Delivery Action Plan, setting out details of social and affordable housing delivery in the period 2022-2026. I received a plan from Tipperary County Council in December 2021 and my Department is working with the Housing Delivery Coordination Office to review the plan, having regard to Housing for All targets and policy objectives.  The Housing Delivery Action Plans will be published in Quarter 2.