Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 23 September 2020
105. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of ongoing or planned housing developments in County Roscommon; the location and the make-up of the developments; the estimated completion time for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25915/20]
View answerMy Department provides funding to local authorities, including Roscommon County Council, to support a broad range of social housing programmes, including the delivery of new social housing homes through build, acquisition and leasing and programmes which support maintenance, upgrades and improvement works to existing social housing stock.
All local authorities, including Roscommon County Council are being funded to significantly increase their delivery of social housing and a strong social housing construction pipeline is already in place for local authorities and approved housing bodies both nationally and in Roscommon.
My Department publishes comprehensive statistics on all social housing delivery activity; these can be seen on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision .
In addition to the statistics on activity in each local authority, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report is published quarterly and provides scheme level detail on new build social housing activity for the local authorities, including projects that are on site, in planning or design and completed projects. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Q4 2019 and is available at the following link: https://rebuildingireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Construction-Status-Report-Q4-2019-1.pdf . An updated Construction Status Report will be published shortly, while further information on such housing projects will be available from the local authority itself.
