Written answers
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Departmental Funding
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of Vote 34 in budget 2024, providing the total capital and current expenditure for each individual programme within heads A, B, C, D, E and F, and a summary of the housing Vote group breakdown. [47530/23]
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to the STAR investment programme for 2024; if this is voted Government expenditure or funded through some other mechanism; and if so, how it is accounted for in the general Government balance. [47531/23]
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of voted capital expenditure for the sustainable tenancy affordable rent investment initiative in 2024; and whether approved housing bodies can apply for the funding. [48302/23]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 611 and 663 together.
I refer the Deputy to the reply to Question No 319 of 17 October 2023 which sets out the position in this matter.
Funding for STAR is voted Government Expenditure. With regard to who can apply for funding, I can confirm that both private providers and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are eligible and can apply to provide cost rental homes under the Scheme. Alternatively, AHBs may also continue to apply for funding under the Cost Rental Equity Loan (CREL) Scheme which was established in 2021 to support AHBs to deliver cost rental homes.
A provision of €15m has been provided in 2024 for STAR within the programme level allocations announced on Budget Day. This provision will be reviewed in the context of the forthcoming review of NDP Capital Ceiling provisions. The Revised Estimates Volume for the Public Service (REV) is published in mid-December every year. This provides final detail on the allocations by subhead for the following year and takes into account both the Programme level allocations announced at Budget and any additional allocations, for example just transition, carbon fund, etc. Accordingly, subhead provisions may vary.
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