Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing for All strategy 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 47,600 new build social homes and 28,500 new affordable homes in the period 2022-2026.

Targets for social housing new build homes and acquisitions are set out in the table below.

National affordable housing delivery targets were published in Housing for All for 2022 – 2030. Overall targets to 2030 include 54,000 affordable housing units; 36,000 of which will be affordable purchase homes, with the remaining 18,000 to be cost rental units.

From 2022 to 2026, over 28,000 affordable homes are targeted for delivery across all local authority areas. Housing for All confirms that, broadly speaking, affordable homes will be delivered on a 2:1 affordable purchase to cost rental basis. In terms of delivery numbers, flexibility is being maintain across programmes to enable the range of affordable schemes and providers react to market changes and opportunities as well as changing affordability patterns.

Within the above figures, significant levels of delivery will be via the Land Development Agency (LDA) and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). Additional delivery is also projected through Part V and by local authorities delivering on their own lands or via advance purchase. The First Home Scheme is also projected to deliver approximately 8,000 affordable interventions in the period to 2026.

Specific delivery targets, for local authority arranged delivery only, have been allocated to 18 local authorities to bring forward delivery in addition to LDA, AHB or Part V delivery in their area. These local authorities are those where the need for affordable housing is a significant proportion of overall housing need.

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 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes in the period 2022-2030. 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 funding through the Housing Finance Agency.

Budget 2022 provided €2.6bn in capital funding to support housing programmes in 2022. This includes €1.56bn for local authority housing, which supports local authorities to delivery new build social homes and social housing acquisitions. Under the funding arrangements in place, local authorities are fully recouped for expenditure incurred in the delivery of new build social homes and acquisitions.

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 90,000 social homes by 2030. 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 funding through the Housing Finance Agency.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity. Data for Quarter 1 2022 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/

My Department also publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR). The CSR provides details of social housing developments that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and pre-tender process. The most recent publication was for Q1 2022. The report is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/6912a-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q1-2022/

A breakdown by the requested delivery steams is out in the table below.

There were no social homes delivered through Part V leasing in Quarter 1 2022. Social homes delivered through Part V leasing are categorised separately on the statistics page of my Department's website above).

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) supports the delivery of social housing by providing financial support to local authorities for the leasing of houses and apartments.

Long term lease arrangements can be entered into by either local authorities or approved housing bodies (AHBs) for periods of between 10 and 25 years.

The number of social homes delivered under long term leasing arrangements for Q1 2022 was 218. The average annual cost of all long-term leases approved in 2021 for a 25 year term was €16,500. My Department does not release specific cost information due to commercial sensitivity that may impact on the competitiveness of the local authority sector.

The average lease cost is calculated based on claims for operational new units submitted by local authorities and recorded on my Department’s SHCEP financial management system and does not necessarily represent the amount delivered in that period.

A breakdown by local authority of the total number of long-term leases delivered in Q1 2022 can be found in Table 1 below:

Table 1: Total Long-term Leasing Delivery by Local Authority – Q1 2022

This data includes local authority direct leasing, enhanced leasing, and AHB private leasing.