Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in light of the ongoing delay in his Department's approvals for affordable housing projects funded via SHIP, CAS, CALF, CREL and AHF, if he believes it important to deliver affordable housing units at the proposed development at Ashewood Glen, Ashbourne, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14082/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Responsibility for the delivery of the housing targets set under Housing for All rests with individual local authorities, which identify the social housing need in their administrative area and are best placed to make decisions on potential sites for development. It is therefore a matter for individual local authorities to identify suitable sites and bring forward proposals to my Department in line with the number and type of households on their housing lists and their social housing development policy.

My Department granted Stage 2/Pre-Planning approval for a 79 unit project at the location in question in July 2024 and I understand that the Part 8 planning process is currently ongoing.

Further details on the advancement of the project will be available directly from Meath County Council. The project when constructed, would be funded through my Department's Local Authority Housing Capital Budget.

All local authorities, including Meath County Council, have developed and published their Housing Delivery Action Plans setting out their plans to deliver social and affordable housing during the period 2022-2026. This follows a comprehensive Housing Needs and Demand Assessment. Each local authority's Action Plan is available on their official website.

The Affordable Housing Fund (AHF) is available to all local authorities to assist towards the cost of developing affordable housing at locations where significant affordability needs have been identified.

My Department, the Housing Agency and Housing Delivery Co-ordination Office of the Local Government Management Association continue to be available to assist local authorities in relation to ongoing development of their affordable housing delivery programmes.

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build homes to include both apartments and houses, both private and social housing, constructed in 2022, 2023 & 2024, in Greystones, Delgany, Kilcoole, Newcastle, Newtownmountkennedy & Roundwood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14094/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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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. Budget 2025 provided Exchequer funding be of €4.85bn to support housing programmes, comprising €3.2bn capital funding and €1.65bn current funding. The Exchequer Capital provision of €3.2bn will be supplemented by Land Development Agency (LDA) investment (projected up to €1.25bn) and Housing Finance Agency (HFA) lending (projected €1.65bn), resulting in an overall capital provision of over €6bn.

Housing completions data are published by the CSO on a quarterly basis and are available on its website at: www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ndc/newdwellingcompletionsq42024/data/

Completions disaggregated by dwelling type (scheme house, single house, apartment) are available at local authority level at data.cso.ie/table/NDQ06. Completions are also available at local electoral area at data.cso.ie/table/NDQ09. Data on new dwelling completions in towns and village level is not available on the CSO website.

Increasing the supply of new homes is key to addressing many of the challenges in the housing market.

Supply has increased significantly in recent years, with some 125,000 new homes delivered since July 2020. This includes 92,500 homes delivered from 2022 to 2024, exceeding the combined target for new homes for the period by 5,500 or so homes.

This progress is mirrored across the country, some 4,324 new homes completed in Wicklow over the three-year period, including 1,538, 1,428 and 1,358 in 2022, 2023 and 2024 respectively.

My Department also 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 Q3 2024, and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/

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 3 2024. All Construction Status Reports are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/

A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis of completions, locations, approvals stage etc at the link below: opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q3-2024

Data for Q4 2024 is currently being collated and will be published in due course.