Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party)
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149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the first local authority affordable purchase homes will be delivered; and the targets for 2022-2025. [12088/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing for All Strategy delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to step up housing supply and put affordability at the heart of the housing system, with an ambitious target of 300,000 homes over the next decade for social, affordable and cost rental, private rental and private ownership housing.

Measures to deliver this housing are supported by over €4 billion in funding annually, representing the highest ever level of Government investment in building social and affordable housing. 54,000 affordable home interventions will be delivered between now and 2030 to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks.

Delivery of affordable housing, in accordance with the schemes set out in the Affordable Housing Act, 2021 and the funding being made available, will be underpinned by local authorities' Housing Delivery Action Plans. Local authorities submitted their Plans to me in December 2021. This allowed each local authority to assess the level of demand with affordability constraint in their area based on the Housing Need and Demand Assessment and plan provision accordingly.

The first local authority affordable purchase homes to be completed will be at Boherboy Road in Cork City later this month where 22 two and three-bed dwellings are expected to be delivered at discounts of up to 20% on market value.

The ‘Housing for All’ national targets for the delivery of Affordable Housing for the years 2022 to 2025 are:

Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of housing needs demand assessment in respect of cost rental accommodation per local authority area over the next five years in tabular form; the breakdown of the projected demand for cost rental accommodation over the next five years per local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12041/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Need Demand Assessment (HNDA) tool estimates overall future housing requirement divided into four tenure-based categorieson the basis of estimates of housing affordability:

1. Owner-occupier

2. Private renter

3. Affordability Constraint

4. Social renter

The HNDA tool does not separate the affordability constraint category into further sub-categories, e.g. cost-rental.

The Housing for All plan confirms Government plans to deliver 54,000 affordable homes nationally in the period to 2030. This includes 36,000 affordable purchase and 18,000 Cost Rental homes.

A Housing Delivery Action Plan is being prepared by each Local Authority and will underpin delivery to 2026 linked to identified need. Informed by the HNDA data for each area, these plans will detail intended delivery by tenure and provider (ie Local Authority/Land Development Agency/Approved Housing Body). Local authorities submitted the first iteration of their plans in December and my officials have now met with each authority. I expect that the final Delivery Action Plans will be published in Q2.