Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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775. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing projects approved under the single stage approval process in each year since that process was introduced; the number of units in each of these applications in each year; the total cost of these applications in each year, by local authority area, in tabular form. [24454/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The single-stage approval process was commenced on a pilot basis in January 2016 as a new streamlined approval mechanism, for projects with a maximum all-in budget of less than €2m and no more than 15 units.

The single-stage process was subsequently reviewed with the threshold increased in 2020 to a ceiling of under €6 million and no more than 25 units. The value limit was increased again in 2023 from €6 million to €8 million.

Since its introduction in 2016, a total of 164 projects across 26 local authorities have availed of the single stage approval process amounting to €163million of social housing capital investment funding. The detail requested in tabular form by local authority and year are set out in the attached file.