Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes sold, by county, to date in 2023. [54851/23]

Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes delivered, by county, in 2023. [54853/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 401 and 403 together.

Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 54,000 affordable homes, including 36,000 affordable purchase and 18,000 cost rental homes, by 2030, to 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.

Following the publication of Housing for All in September 2021, I asked all local authorities to prepare Housing Delivery Action Plans. Each local authority was asked to assess the level of new housing demand with affordability constraint projected for their area based on the Housing Need and Demand Assessment Tool and plan their provision accordingly. A copy of each Council’s Housing Delivery Action Plan is available on their individual websites.

Local authorities now complete and submit data returns to my Department on delivery of affordable homes in their area in the same manner as is done for social housing. Statistical data on affordable housing delivery by tenure and by local authority area during 2022 and for Quarter 1 and 2 of 2023 is published on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/#affordable-housing-delivery.

Individual scheme information has also been published in advertisements on local authority, Approved Housing Body and the LDA websites. Schemes being advertised are now also available in a single location on the Affordable Homes website, www.affordablehomes.ie.

Overall, a range of affordability schemes are now in place under the Affordable Housing Act 2021 that will increasingly provide a growing number of affordable options for eligible prospective homeowners and renters. Delivery is being facilitated and scaled-up nationwide by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency, and via the First Homes scheme.