Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable cost rental homes delivered by AHBs and the LDA in 2022; the breakdown by local authority area; the number of units in each scheme; and the average rent being charged. [8758/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Cost Rental was introduced through the Affordable Housing Act 2021. Cost rental is targeted to deliver at least 25% below market level and at households with incomes above the social housing limits, but who cannot afford to purchase or rent their own home on the open market. Cost Rental provides tenants with secure tenancies in sustainable, long-term homes. Under the Cost Rental model, rents for homes are set to cover only the cost of financing, building, managing and maintaining the homes. Importantly, one of the conditions of this scheme is that households must have net income (i.e. the level of income after tax) of less than €53,000.

The first Cost Rental homes were delivered in 2021, and 2022 saw significant delivery of further Cost Rental homes by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) via the Cost Rental Equity Loan and the first Cost Rental homes delivered via the Land Development Agency (LDA).

Local authorities have begun systematically collating information on delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental homes in their administrative areas, including validated delivery from AHBs and the LDA, in the same manner as is currently undertaken for social housing. 2022 year end returns are currently being submitted by local authorities to my Department. Informed by this data, I expect that my Department will be in a position to report the confirmed local authority wide 2022 social, affordable purchase and cost rental housing delivery by the end of Q1 2023.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase homes delivered via the affordable housing fund in 2022; the breakdown by local authority area; the number of homes per scheme; and the average cost of the home with and without the AHF discount. [8759/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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. I have set individual five-year Housing delivery targets for local authorities. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need were also set affordable housing delivery targets and asked to include their planned affordable housing delivery in their Housing Delivery Action Plans. These plans were published on the local authorities’ respective websites in July 2022.

2022 represented the commencement of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. This momentum will continue with delivery significantly increasing in 2023. A pipeline of housing delivery is in place and being developed by local authorities, by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) and by the LDA.

Local authorities have begun the process of submitting data returns and 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 by the end of Q1 2023.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is monitoring the impact of the introduction of the fresh start principle in the housing schemes run by his Department, and in particular whether his Department is tracking applications, approvals or drawdowns of monies from these schemes for those whose applications include the fresh start principal. [8761/23]