Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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1109.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide year-to-date housing supply figures for County Westmeath under various categories (details supplied), in tabular form. [32438/24]

Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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1179.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that were delivered through the mortgage-to-rent, buy-and-renew and repair-and-lease schemes to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33344/24]

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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1212.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of build social homes delivered each year since 2020, in tabular form. [33662/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1109, 1179 and 1212 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. 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.

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 the end of Q1 2024 and is published on the statistics' page of my Department’s website at the following link: gov.ie - Overall social and affordable housing provision (www.gov.ie).

Data for affordable housing delivery is published on a quarterly basis, similar to social housing delivery. This data is published to the end of Q1 2024, including cost rental delivery, and is available on my Department's website: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/ .

Q2 2024 data for both social and affordable housing delivery is currently being collated and verified and will be published in due course.

My Department also 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 1 2024. All Construction Status Reports are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/

Local authorities are encouraged to acquire vacant/derelict properties to be upgraded as new, value-for-money social homes via the Buy & Renew Scheme. Since it was introduced in 2016, in excess of 900 properties have been delivered under this arrangement with 5 units completed in Q1, 2024. Alongside the acquisition and upgrade as new social homes of existing properties in need of refurbishment, in recent years an increasing number of local authorities are tackling more substantial projects involving derelict properties. This allows for local authorities to tackle dereliction where substantial construction work is involved and to produce further new social homes. This work is undertaken alongside a local authority's programme of construction on green field sites. Together with Buy & Renew acquisitions, it creates opportunities for local authorities to respond to more significant dereliction in town centres.