Aidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of housing projects sanctioned and or funded in full and or in part to include number of units, by type, that have been paused and or rejected due to deviations from design, specification and or cost expectations did not represent value for money in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [39345/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Since the beginning of 2022 my Department has supported the delivery of 30,783 new social homes across thousands of individual projects funded through build, acquisition and leasing programmes.

My Department continually engages with local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHB) while assessing applications for suitability, value for money and compliance with the various requirements of the applicable funding scheme. The decision to not proceed with a project which has previously been approved is not the norm, however the information sought is not readily available as the systems used to track projects though the various life-cycle stages do not record projects with approval that are subsequently placed on hold. The compilation of the data requested would involve delivery teams reviewing individual projects on a manual basis to assess whether deviations from original design or value for money factors led to the status of the project being revised.

My Department continues to receive and assess applications for suitability, value for money and compliance with the various requirements of the applicable funding scheme and the Department is committed to the provision of funding to local authorities and AHBs for the delivery of Social and Affordable housing projects.