Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the total number of active HAP tenancies in each local authority for the most recent date available. [44965/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is a flexible and immediate housing support that is available to all eligible households with a long term housing need. At end Q2 2023, over 112,900 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, with 58,234 active tenancies being supported under the HAP Scheme.

Details of the number of active tenancies by local authority area at the end of Q2 2023 are set out in the table below.

* DRHE is operating the HAP Homeless on behalf of the four Dublin local authorities

I am committed to decreasing our reliance on the HAP scheme and central to that is significantly scaling up our social housing supply. 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. As new build supply of social and affordable housing ramps up, there will be reducing reliance on the HAP scheme.