Written answers

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

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Photo of John Paul PhelanJohn Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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825. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation (details supplied) in each year from 2010 to 2022; and the projected funding for 2023. [17693/23]

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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842. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in detail the funding granted to each voluntary housing organisation for the erection or acquisition of residential units for each of the past five years; the number of units erected or acquired, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17857/23]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 825 and 842 together.

There are a broad range of funding and delivery mechanisms available to local authorities to deliver social housing and related supports in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). The funding is primarily provided by my Department directly to local authorities, who in turn, advance the funding to the AHBs, as appropriate.

Details on the funding provided to each individual AHB is not readily available within my Department. However, overall, for the last five years, over €2.7 billion was provided by my Department to the local authorities in respect of a range of AHB funded schemes as follows:

Year Funding €m
2018 348
2019 430
2020 515
2021 633
2022 797
Total 2,72

Additionally, in respect of homeless expenditure, financial reports from each of the homeless regions, setting out expenditure on homeless services are published on my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/80ea8-homelessness-data/#local-authority-regional-financial-reports/.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and AHBs in each local authority, including data on social housing acquisitions and new build delivery. This data is available to the end of 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/.

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