Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 112 and 116 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. The 54,000 affordable home interventions that will be delivered between now and 2030 will be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. 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. The Plans have been published on the local authorities own websites.

My Department 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.The report is available at the following link: gov.ie - Social Housing Construction Projects - Status Reports (www.gov.ie).

A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis of completions, locations, approvals stage etc. at the link below: data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q2-2023.

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. 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/

To date, over 3,000 affordable housing solutions have been delivered through Cost Rental, the First Home Scheme and the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme. Data for affordable housing delivery is published on a quarterly basis, similar to social housing delivery. This data is published up to Quarter 2 2023 and is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/#affordable-housing-delivery.

A very ambitious programme of affordable housing is now in place and has already seen significant delivery in 2022 and to date in 2023. This momentum will continue as the pipeline of affordable housing delivery is developed and expanded by local authorities, by AHBs and by the LDA.