Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes sold by county in 2022. [62635/22]

Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes delivered by county to date in 2022. [62637/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 101 and 103 together.

Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing to the required 33,000 homes, on average, per year over the next decade. 54,000 affordable home interventions will be delivered between now and 2030 to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks.

In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared and published a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need were asked to include their planned affordable housing delivery in their Action Plans. I have also set individual five-year Affordable Housing delivery targets for those local authorities.

2022 represents the commencement of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. A pipeline of affordable housing delivery is being developed by local authorities, by Approved Housing Bodies using the Cost Rental Equity Loan and by the Land Development Agency. Furthermore, local authorities have been begun 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 in Q1 2023.

Furthermore, the First Home Scheme, launched in July this year, supports first-time buyers in purchasing new houses and apartments in the private market through the use of an equity share model, similar to that employed in the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme. The Scheme aims to support in the region of 8,000 households in acquiring new homes in the private market in the years 2022 to 2026 with an overall budget of €400 million. The scheme is available nationwide and more information can be found at www.firsthomescheme.ie/.

Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental homes that persons have moved into by county in 2022. [62636/22]

Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental homes delivered by county to date in 2022. [62638/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 102 and 104 together.

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

In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared and published a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need were asked to include their planned affordable housing delivery in their Action Plans. I have also set individual five-year Affordable Housing delivery targets for those local authorities.

2022 represents the commencement of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. A pipeline of affordable purchase and cost rental housing delivery is being developed by local authorities, by Approved Housing Bodies using the Cost Rental Equity Loan and by the Land Development Agency. Furthermore, local authorities have been begun collating information on their delivery of affordable homes as well as the AHB sector 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 for 2022 in the national quarterly delivery statistics in Q1 2023.

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, which is expected to bring essential more long-term stability to the Irish housing market.

The LDA is also tasked with unlocking stalled private, planning-consented developments in the shorter-term through its market engagement initiative - Project Tosaigh. An expressions of interest process was launched at the end of 2021, and the LDA now has a pipeline of projects anticipated to deliver cost rental and affordable purchase homes. The LDA recently launched a renewed expressions of interest process under Project Tosaigh seeking proposals from the homebuilding sector for the forward purchase of unbuilt residential units. Work is underway in assessing proposals submitted. Details of current LDA developments on public land and Project Tosaigh can be found at www.lda.ie.

The LDA has also been asked to begin collating information on its delivery of affordable homes. It is intended that this information will be reported along with national quarterly delivery statistics for local authorities and AHBs.

Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses delivered by local authority and by AHBs respectively by county in tabular form. [62639/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity in all local authorities, including information on social housing delivery by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies in each local authority. This data is available until the end of Quarter 2 2022 and 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 tender processes. The most recent publication was for Quarter 2 2022 and is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/5a259-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q2-2022/

A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis at the link below:

data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q2-2022?package_type=dataset.

The Quarter 3 statistics are being collated and will be published in shortly, in conjunction with the Quarter 3 Construction Status Report.