Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the name of the approved housing body that will manage the 326 social homes approved for capital advance leasing facility funding at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39224/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department operates a number of funding programmes that assist local authorities to work in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to construct and purchase homes and make them available for social housing. One such programme that local authorities and AHBs progress Social Housing projects through is the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF). CALF funding is capital support provided to AHBs by local authorities to facilitate the funding of construction, acquisition or refurbishment of new social housing units. The local authority issues the CALF monies to the AHB and the local authority, in turn, recoups same from the Department.

With regard to the specific project mentioned, I can confirm that the project received conditional Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) funding approval in March 2024 for 326 social housing homes. My Department actively engages with the local authority and Respond the Approved Housing Body (AHB) concerned.