Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 June 2020
1203. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding stream from which the 2019 Part V units were paid from by local authority; the spend by local authority per unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8957/20]
View answerA total of 1,326 Part V homes were delivered by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for social housing in 2019. A detailed breakdown of these homes across all local authority areas in the period up to end Q4 2019 is available at the following link:
https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision
Of the 1,326 Part V homes provided for social housing in 2019, 589 homes were delivered by LAs. 578 of these fall under the Social Housing Capital Investment Programme (SHCIP) funding mechanism and the remaining 11 were delivered by the local authority at no cost to the Department- these may have been funded by the local authority through own resources, or from a historic Part V agreement.
Part V homes are also funded under Approved Housing Body (AHB) funding programmes, including the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) which supported 719 Part V homes in 2019 and the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) which supported the delivery of 4 Part V homes in 2019. Finally, in the event that the Part V agreement is for a lease, the units will be funded under the SHCEP leasing programme, there were 14 such homes provided in 2019.
While statistics have been collated in relation to Part V delivery, given the various delivery models outlined above, a unit cost analysis of these homes by local authority level is not available. It must also be noted that expenditure and cost are not analogous as recoupment to the LA for a unit delivered in a particular year may arise in the following year, depending on the timing of the claim submission.
