Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the National Development Plan commitments on social housing are currently being fulfilled by Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2366/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The NDP allocation for the Department was agreed in mid-2021, supporting very ambitious targets for delivery of Capital infrastructure across all areas of my Department. In September 2021, the Government published Housing for All, a new plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5bn funding through the Housing Finance Agency.

Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes; 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing and 28,500 new affordable homes in the period 2022-2026.

In September 2021, I issued social housing targets to each local authority for the period 2022-2026 with long term leasing targets reduced year on year until completely phased out. A key action of Housing for All is that local authorities developed and submitted Housing Delivery Action Plans to include details of social and affordable housing delivery. The Plans set out details of both social and affordable housing delivery as appropriate over the period 2022-2026, in line with targets set under Housing for All. The Plans also include details of the locations and delivery streams for social housing schemes. The Plans are available on local authorities own websites.

It is also very clear that a strong pipeline for social housing has been established. The mostly recently published Construction Status Report for Quarter 3 2022, showed that there were 9,115 social homes under construction on site at the end of September 2022 and a further 13,709 homes at various stages of design and procurement.