Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual target for new housing units provided by local authorities and approved housing bodies broken down by newbuilds, both direct build and turnkey, Part V, regeneration, and voids, in each of the years from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [5141/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Housing for All is the Government’s 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. The delivery of the affordable home interventions will 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.

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. The build target includes delivery under all build programmes. The target for 2022 was 9,000 new build homes and for 2023 is 9,100 new build homes.

Data on social housing targets and delivery for previous years 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/#social-housing-delivery-progress-against-targets.

Data in relation to delivery under the Voids Programme to end 2021 is published on my Department’s website at the following link:  www.gov.ie/en/collection/0906a-other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics/#voids-programme. Data for 2022 will be published at this link in the coming weeks. My Department will continue to support local authorities in their work in this area and funding allocations under the 2023 Voids Programme will be announced shortly.

In relation to the further breakdown of the new build targets, my Department does not disaggregate the targets between new build on local authority land and turnkey, Part V or regeneration developments. It is a matter for the local authorities and the AHBs to advance projects and to submit funding proposals to my Department on a case-by-case basis.