Written answers
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Housing Provision
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if current and future residents in accommodation provided by the International Protection and Accommodation Service are included in the data informing the housing needs demand assessment both for the State-wide targets and the local authority specific targets; and if so, the way in which this data in included. [57331/22]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Need and Demand Assessment (HNDA) tool is key to estimating likely future housing need across the State by tenure type, including private ownership, private rental, social and affordable homes. The tool is underpinned by independent research undertaken by the ESRI on behalf of my Department. Drawing on Census 2016 population data, and incorporating CSO estimates on net international migration for 2017-2019 and modelled projections/ scenarios from 2020 onwards, it provides an estimate of structural housing demand at national and county level to 2030.
Actual population increases reflected in the Census 2022 data above the underlying projections/ scenarios in the HNDA tool, arising inter alia from inward migration, are not included in the estimated housing need. That said, in line with commitments in Housing for All, the HNDA framework and housing targets will be updated having regard to the detailed Census 2022 data. This data will be available from June 2023. The revised targets will also take account of projected population increases in coming years, including from net inward migration.
As per my Department's HNDA guidance, local authorities are required, when preparing their respective HNDAs, to estimate the level of specialist housing needed, including temporary housing for international protection applicants.
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria which a SHIP and CALF construction and a SHIP and CALF turn-key social homes are considered delivered, in order for such units to be included in the social housing output figures in a given year. [57332/22]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The process of gathering and collating social housing delivery statistics is managed by the Department’s Statistics and Data Analytics Unit (SDAU). A circular is issued to local authorities each quarter requesting social housing delivery details and returns submitted by the local authorities are collated for publication.
For local authority new build, completion is when the keys have been handed over the local authority and the ESB meter has been connected. For a local authority Turnkey, completion is the date the contract to purchase is signed.
CALF projects, both construction and turnkey, are typically considered delivered having regard of the effective date of the Payment and Availability Agreement, although in some instances the units will have been completed in advance of the agreement being signed.
The published output figures by my Department are based on the social housing units confirmed as completed on the Statistical Returns received from each local authority on a quarterly basis. The Department keeps this matter under regular review.
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