Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review by his Department of public homes in the pipeline; and the number of these that have been stalled for over 12 months. [33089/23]

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 and 54,000 affordable homes by 2030. 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.

My Department publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR) on a quarterly basis. The CSR provides details of social housing developments and their location that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and tender processes. The most recent publication was for Quarter 4 2022. All Construction Status Reports are available at the following link: .

Since 2020, there have been significant challenges to the construction sector. Arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, measures introduced by the Government to protect public health required most construction activity to halt during periods in 2020 and 2021. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 also raised significant challenges in relation to supply chain constraints, construction materials inflation and rising energy costs, resulting in delays to some projects. These issues resulted in delays to a large number of projects.

My Department has been working closely with local authorities to increase social housing delivery. There has been a strong improvement in the delivery environment, supported by measures introduced by this Government to address material inflation and energy costs, through the introduction of the Inflation/ Supply Chain Delay Co-operation Framework.

Housing for All also contains a number of measures to support the capacity of local authorities to deliver housing projects. In this regard, I have approved an additional 250 staff specifically to support the delivery of social housing. Last year saw the highest level of new build social housing delivered since 1975, with a 7,433 new social homes built.