Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has any plans to develop social housing in County Clare in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3269/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The delivery of new social housing is planned and implemented by local authorities, working in partnership with housing associations and the construction sector, with funding support from my Department. Following the publication of Housing for All, the Government's housing plan for Ireland, I issued social housing delivery targets to all local authority Chief Executives for the 5 year period 2022 to 2026. For Clare County Council the target is for the delivery of 834 new social homes over this period. 149 of this target is for delivery in 2023 and I look forward to the successful delivery by the Council this year against this target.

I want to acknowledge that Clare County Council, with the support of their public representatives, has delivered well against their social housing targets to date and have a good pipeline of further projects in place. Under Housing for All, the funding is in place to support Clare County Council and all other Councils, to deliver these new social homes.

My Department publishes statistics on all social housing delivery activity which are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/

In addition, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report is published quarterly and provides scheme level detail on new build social housing activity for the local authorities, including projects that are on site, in planning or design and completed projects. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Q3 2022, includes the projects being advanced by or on behalf of Clare County Council, and is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/2b4cd-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q3-2022/

Clare County Council has also recently developed their own 5-year Housing Delivery Action Plan which will contain further information on their future delivery plans and more specific information on their social housing projects will be available from the local authority itself.