Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 June 2020
1233. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to provide public housing in County Monaghan through the local authority and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9198/20]
View answerAll local authorities, including Monaghan County Council, are being funded to significantly increase their delivery of social housing in line with their Rebuilding Ireland targets and a strong social housing construction pipeline is already in place for local authorities and approved housing bodies both nationally and in Monaghan.
Information on social housing delivery is published by my Department on a quarterly basis at the following link: https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision.
Progress by each local authority against the Rebuilding Ireland targets is also published, most recently in respect of 2019 outputs, which data is available at https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/details-of-social-housing-delivery-on-a-local-authority-basis-for-2019/. This information shows that Monaghan County Council has delivered new social housing at or above the targets set and support continues to be available to them to sustain this good delivery.
In addition, a Social Housing Construction Status Report is published quarterly which provides scheme level detail on new build activity under Rebuilding Ireland for the different local authorities, including Monaghan. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Quarter 4 of 2019 and is at the following link:
https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-social-housing-construction-status-report-for-q4-2019-2/.
