As the Deputy will be aware, my Department provides funding to local authorities for the delivery of a range of housing programmes and supports. The details requested in respect of Longford County Council and Westmeath County Council are set out in the following table.
Longford County Council
|
-
|
2011 €m
|
2012 €m
|
2013 €m
|
2014 €m
|
2015 €m
|
2016 €m
|
2017 €m
|
|
Rental Accommodation Scheme
|
1.76
|
1.44
|
1.16
|
0.89
|
0.84
|
0
|
0
|
|
Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme
|
0.07
|
0.12
|
0.08
|
0.07
|
0.15
|
0.36
|
0.52
|
|
Housing Assistance Payment
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
0.009
|
|
LA Housing Capital Programme
|
1.06
|
1.64
|
0.62
|
0.97
|
0.56
|
1.58
|
4.45
|
|
Voids
|
0.08
|
0
|
0
|
0.31
|
0.43
|
0.51
|
0
|
Westmeath County Council
|
-
|
2011 €m
|
2012 €m
|
2013 €m
|
2014 €m
|
2015 €m
|
2016 €m
|
2017 €m
|
|
Rental Accommodation Scheme
|
2.06
|
1.79
|
1.91
|
2
|
2.38
|
1.51
|
3.9
|
|
Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme
|
0.45
|
0.78
|
1.06
|
1.32
|
1.13
|
2
|
1.71
|
|
Housing Assistance Payment
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
0.005
|
0.02
|
|
LA Housing Capital Programme
|
2.3
|
2.96
|
0.55
|
2.18
|
1.11
|
4.31
|
5.23
|
|
Voids
|
0.12
|
0
|
0
|
0.37
|
0.65
|
0.44
|
0.33
|
Detailed data in relation to social housing delivery across all schemes by each local authority, for the years 2011 to 2017, is available on my Department's website at the following link.
The Quarter 4 2017 Construction Status Report, available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the link below, provides project-level detail on the existing pipeline in place in all local authorities. The report is based on activity up to end 2017 and, over the course of 2018, further projects will have been moving through from approval to on-site, with additional projects also being added to the pipeline. These will be reflected in the next quarterly report, as contained in the following link.
Exchequer funding under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 is also provided to housing authorities on a regional basis towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services. Under the funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of services from their own resources. Housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the funding arrangements with my Department. Therefore, the exact amounts spent by housing authorities on homeless services, as well as the types of accommodation, are a matter for those authorities. Westmeath and Longford Counties are included in the Midlands region, along with Laois and Offaly, for the purposes of homelessness administration, with Westmeath County Council as the lead authority for the region. A breakdown of the funding recouped to the Midlands Region since 2013 is available and set out in the following table.
Funding under Section 10 of the Housing Act, 1988 to the Midlands Region
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Year
|
Amount
|
|
2013
|
€ 649,707
|
|
2014
|
€ 649,707
|
|
2015
|
€ 805,995
|
|
2016
|
€1,109,748
|
|
2017
|
€1,467,615
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