Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 2 October 2018
616. Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of rapid build units delivered in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39441/18]
View answerMy Department is working closely with all local authorities in relation to increasing and accelerating the delivery of a range of social housing programmes and supports, including through the use of rapid build methodologies.
Under my Department’s Social Housing Capital programme, 208 Rapid Delivery homes were completed during 2016 and 2017. 22 of these were delivered in 2016, increasing substantially to 186 new social homes delivered in 2017.
79 new Rapid Delivery social housing homes have been delivered up to the end of Q2 this year, with a further 132 units across 6 schemes scheduled for completion before the end of the year. An additional 26 rapid build projects, set to yield a further 686 new social housing homes, are now being advanced.
Local authorities have been advised that rapid build approaches should increasingly become the norm in terms of delivering social housing projects and my Department will continue to engage with local authorities to this end.
