Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 April 2017
291. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the guidelines for the qualification criteria for specific instances houses from local authorities; the cases in which a sole applicant can be considered for a special instance house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17541/17]
View answerIt is a matter for each local authority to determine the nature, location and relative priority of individual social housing projects. In submitting proposals for funding to my Department in respect of new social housing projects, local authorities may include proposals for single social houses in rural areas where they have identified and prioritised such need.
Local authorities now have substantial pipelines of new social housing projects, ranging from larger scale developments to smaller scale projects, details of which have been published and are available at the following link: http://rebuildingireland.ie/news/social-housing-developments/. I am keen that they advance all of these as soon as possible and have assured them that funding is available to fully support their efforts in this regard.
