Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 May 2015
562. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, per local authority, of the number of persons on the social housing waiting list from 2008 to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17712/15]
View answerThe statutory social housing needs assessments carried out in 2008, 2011 and 2013 detail the number of households on social housing waiting lists during the period concerned, broken down by each local authority.
The full results of the assessments undertaken in 2008 to 2013 are available on my Department’s website at the following links:
2008: http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublications/HousingStatistics/FileDownLoad,27868,en.pdf
2011: http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/Housing/FileDownLoad,27864,en.pdf
2013: http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/Housing/FileDownLoad,34857,en.pdf
The 2013 figures are the most up-to-date figures available on waiting list numbers, which are subject to on-going fluctuation due to households being allocated housing and new households applying for housing support. However, the 2013 results cannot be directly compared to previous results given that this latest summary employed updated methodologies and was the first to be carried out under the new 2011 Social Housing Assessment Regulations.
In order to ensure that the most up to date and comprehensive data is available on an on-going basis, relating to the numbers applying for social housing support, the Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020, published in November 2014, includes a number of actions to standardise assessment and increase the regularity of assessments including undertaking the summary of social housing assessments on an annual basis from 2016 onwards.
