Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 5,550 affordable homes referred to in page 122 of the Budget 2023 Budget Book by type including Affordable Housing Fund, Cost Rental Equity Loan, LDA, Shared Equity Loan and any other delivery stream. [48293/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (s), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through the First Home Scheme. Government has signalled that homes will be provided broadly on a 2:1 affordable purchase to cost rental basis over the course of the plan.

I can confirm that page 123 of the Budget 2023 Expenditure Report provides a breakdown of the 5,550 affordable homes referred to on page 122 of the report.

- Building on the State funding already provided to the First Home Shared Equity Scheme, a further €50 million will support First Home, which, with additional funding from participating banks, will support the purchase of up to 2,000 homes by eligible buyers.

- More than 2,800 homes will be delivered for affordable purchase and cost rental, through both LDA investment and with funding of €90 million via the Affordable Housing Fund in 2023 to support delivery by local authorities.

- In addition, s will deliver 750 Cost Rental homes - these homes will be delivered via €75 million provided in the Cost Rental Equity Loan (CREL) mechanism.

It is also noted that €250 million will be available in 2023 for lending under the expanded Local Authority Home Loan, which provides a route to home ownership for those who cannot secure the necessary commercial loan.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 2,530 new social homes to be delivered through various leasing schemes referred to in page 122 of the 2023 Budget Book by leasing scheme long-term leasing, Part V leasing, repair and lease, mortgage to rent, and any other; and the way that this leasing target related to the 6,500 social homes to be delivered via the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme as detailed in page 124 of the Budget 2023 Budget Book. [48294/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) budget funds the ongoing current costs of social homes delivered using a variety of different delivery mechanisms. This includes properties built or acquired by Approved Housing Bodies (s) using funding under the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) and the Housing Agency Acquisitions Fund (HAA), which are then made available under a Payment & Availability Agreement to local authorities. It also includes properties leased on a long term basis from private property owners by s or local authorities; comprising properties secured through specific programs such as the Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS), the Long Term Leasing Scheme and the Mortgage to Rent Scheme. Dwellings made available under SHCEP are used to accommodate households from local authority waiting lists.

SHCEP delivery streams have a combined targeted delivery of almost 6,500 social homes for 2023. Within that overall SHCEP delivery target of 6,500 homes; there is a leasing target of 2,530 homes, which is broken down by source in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Targeted Delivery for Leasing Schemes in 2023

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that he expects to be purchased in 2022 and 2023 using the first home shared equity scheme. [48295/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The First Home Scheme is one of a suite of measures introduced under ‘Housing for All’ that together are intended to deliver some 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030. Launched on 7 July 2022, the Scheme supports first-time buyers in purchasing new houses and apartments in the private market through the use of an equity share model.

As a demand-led measure, within which financial support is allocated as and when eligible applications are processed and thereafter funding is drawn down as the standard conveyancing process is completed, there is no annual ceiling on supported purchases.

Overall, the Scheme is intended to support up to 8,000 affordable purchases in the period out to 2026. The State has committed an overall funding envelope of €200m over the lifetime of the scheme to be matched by the participating lenders. As part of Budget 2023, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform confirmed €50m of funding would be made available. Full details of the Scheme, including eligibility criteria, are available on the website: www.firsthomescheme.ie

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes that he expects the Land Development Agency to deliver in 2022 and 2023; and if he will provide a breakdown by affordable cost rental and affordable purchase. [48298/22]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of all projects currently being progressed by the Land Development Agency; the projected homes to be delivered; the tenure of these homes; the timelines for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48487/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 291 and 303 together.

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, the Government will deliver 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (s), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks.

2022 represents the first year of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. Significant funding has been secured and is being made available by Government to support delivery of affordable housing for purchase or for cost rental by local authorities, AHBs and by the LDA.

The LDA has an immediate focus on managing the State’s own lands to develop new homes, and regenerate under-utilised sites. In the longer-term, it will assemble strategic land-banks from a mix of public and private lands making these available for housing in a controlled manner, which is expected to bring essential more long-term stability to the Irish housing market. It is also tasked with unlocking stalled private, planning-consented developments in the shorter-term through its market engagement initiative - Project Tosaigh.

The target under Project Tosaigh is the delivery of 5,000 new homes in the years 2022 to 2026 for affordable cost rental or sale to eligible households under affordable purchase arrangements. The LDA has advised my Department that they are nearing the completion of phase 1 of Project Tosaigh and will be in a position to provide details as to where these developments are shortly.

The Q2 2022 Housing for All progress report detailing proposals and progress on the LDA's active sites over both the short and long term can be accessed on the following link.

www.gov.ie/en/publication/03335-housing-for-all-q2-2022-progress-report/

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase homes that he expects will be delivered with the €90 million allocation to the Affordable Housing Fund in 2023. [48299/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Over the period to 2026, the Government's Housing for All strategy commits to delivering 10,000 Cost Rental homes and 18,000 Affordable Purchase homes which will be delivered by Approved Housing Bodies (s), local authorities, the Land Development Agency (LDA), and the First Home shared equity scheme.

2022 represents the first year of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. This momentum will continue with delivery significantly increasing in 2023. More than 2,800 homes will be delivered for affordable purchase and cost rental, through both LDA investment and with funding of €90 million via the Affordable Housing Fund in 2023 to support delivery by local authorities.

A number of local authorities are currently working on submitting advance purchase proposals to my Department and it is anticipated that activity in this area will increase further going forward. Of those projects that have been approved to date, the majority will deliver affordable purchase homes in 2022 and 2023.

In implementing Housing for All, each local authority has now prepared a Housing Delivery Action Plan for 2022 to 2026. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need were asked to include planned affordable housing delivery in their Action Plans. These plans have now been published by each local authority. I have set five-year Affordable Housing delivery targets for those local authorities.

Local authorities have been asked to begin collating information on delivery of affordable homes in their area in the same manner as is currently done for social housing. It is intended that information on delivery across all delivery streams will be gathered by my Department and I expect that my Department will be in a position to begin reporting on affordable delivery in national quarterly delivery statistics later this year. A pipeline of affordable housing delivery is also being developed by local authorities.