Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No 288 of 4 October 2020, if he will provide a breakdown of the 2,800 homes to be delivered for affordable purchase and cost rental, through both LDA investment and with funding of €90 million via the affordable housing fund stating the number of cost rental and affordable purchases to be delivered by the LDA and the number of cost rental and affordable purchases to be delivered by local authorities. [50137/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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.

A delivery target for 2023 was set in Housing for All of 5,500 affordable homes for affordable purchase and cost rental across the various delivery streams. 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. I have also 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. Furthermore, a number of local authorities are currently working on submitting advance purchase proposals to my Department and I anticipate that activity in this area will increase further going forward.

The Land Development Agency (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/.