Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he might authorise the reintroduction of the rural housing programme, with particular reference to those on the local authority housing lists coming from a rural area being facilitated by way of a programme to ensure that they might be housed in their own area rather than adding to the waiting lists in urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54436/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Local authorities are responsible for the identification of the social housing need in their area and for the development of appropriate responses to the need identified. The provision of a single rural dwelling on local authority owned land or sites provided by an individual can be part of a local authority's social housing construction pipeline, where identified and prioritised by the authority.

Under Housing for All, each local authority was required to prepare a Housing Delivery Action Plan for the period 2022-2026. These Plans set out details of social and affordable housing delivery for the period 2022-2026, in line with targets issued by my Department. The Plans also include details of the locations where social and affordable housing will be delivered in addition to information on housing typology.

Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recently published summary for all counties, conducted in November 2022, is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/62486-summary-of-social-housing-assessments/

The SSHA exercise for 2023 is currently underway and the summary is due to be published in 2024.