Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 9 June 2020
711. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of public housing units built by local authorities and approved housing bodies since the foundation of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10345/20]
View answerThere is no single, comparable set of data pertaining to the output of public housing in the State which spans the near century covered by the Deputy's query.
The Central Statistics Office does hold records pertaining to housing units 'rented from Local Authority', which span back to prior to the formation of the State but even in the early decades of the State some of the these homes were supplied through the purchase of homes rather than new build so it is not possible to isolate the number built from the number delivered.
Some of this data from the early decades of the State may be accessed at the following link:
https://statbank.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?Maintable=E1018&Planguage=0
Since the outset of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan we have sought to make an unprecedented volume of data publicly and transparently available. To this end, quarterly monitoring across the various output streams are published to the both my Department's website and to the Open Data Portal in searchable and configurable formats.
Furthermore, a quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Report outlines an Appendix of every scheme completed and in progress, broken down by both Local Authority Area and by funding programme.
Q4 Social Housing Construction Status Report:
https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-social-housing-construction-status-report-for-q4-2019-2/
Social Housing Delivery (c.2000 onwards)
https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision
Open Data Portal (configurable files)
https://data.gov.ie/dataset?organization=department-of-housing-planning-and-local-government&theme=Housing
