Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 125 and 127 together.

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. 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.

A key action of Housing for All required local authorities to develop 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. Cork City Council's and Cork County Council's Plans are available on their respective websites at these links: www.corkcity.ie/en/media-folder/housing/cork-city-council-housing-delivery-action-plan.pdfand www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/housing/housing-delivery-action-plan-2022-2026.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority including Cork City and Cork County. This data is available to Quarter 2 2023, 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/.

My Department also publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR). 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 2 2023. All Construction Status Reports are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/.

A version of the CSR is available for analysis at the following link: data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q2-2023#:~:text=The%20latest%20Construction%20Status%20Report,were%20added%20to%20the%20pipeline.

The Housing for All strategy commits to delivering a total of 18,000 Cost Rental homes over the period to 2030, and significant funding is being made available to support provision by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), local authorities, the Land Development Agency (LDA), and now also private providers under the new Secure Tenancy Affordable Rental (STAR) investment scheme.

Delivery will increase incrementally to an average of 2,000 Cost Rental homes per year, with 10,000 Cost Rental homes targeted for delivery by 2026. The very first Cost Rental homes in Ireland were delivered in late 2021, and 2022 saw significant acceleration of delivery. An initial group of 65 Cost Rental homes were delivered in late 2021, and 684 new homes were delivered in 2022. Cost Rental delivery is continuing this year, with a pipeline of housing delivery which is being progressively developed by local authorities, AHBs, and the LDA.