Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected processing time from application submission to sale of house on affordable houses; or the target he is hoping to achieve. [54861/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The closing of the sale of each affordable home on its completion and delivery is a matter between parties to the transaction, who include the individual purchaser, their mortgage provider, and the relevant local authority, together with their respective legal representatives.

My Department has issued pro forma legal and conveyancing material to all local authorities, following engagement with key stakeholders including the Law Society, all participating banks, local authorities, the Property Registration Authority and others. Standardised arrangements and procedures in place in this way assist the efficient completion of the legal and conveyancing process as the Affordable Homes delivery programme is scaled up in line with the Housing for All commitment to deliver 54,000 affordable homes across a range of measures by 2030.

Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he will publish figures on the numbers of people on social housing lists longer than seven, eight, nine, ten years, and so on, respectively, by local authority administrative area, based on SSHA figures provided by local authorities. [54862/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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/

Details on the length of time spent on the record of qualified households (waiting lists) can be found at tables 2.8 and A1.8 of the report. It does not provide a breakdown of the number of years beyond the category of more than 7 years.

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