Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 December 2020
283. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons on housing waiting lists who have a disability recorded on their application in each local authority between 1 January 2015 and 1 December 2020, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42795/20]
View answerThe Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA) has been conducted on an annual basis since 2016, prior to which it was carried out once every three years. The last Summary under the triennial approach took place in 2013, and, as there was no assessment carried out in 2014 or 2015, my Department has no data available for those years.
The link to the information requested for the years 2016 to 2019 was provided by my Department in a response to your Question No. 483 of 30 July 2020.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2020-07-30/483/#pq_483
While the SSHA is normally conducted in or around June of each year, given the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on local authorities and nature of the work involved in conducting the SSHA, the SSHA for 2020 was deferred to allow local authorities to continue to focus their resources on immediate priorities. Accordingly, it has only recently been conducted and will be published in due course.
