Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 23 June 2021
138. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units that were provided to persons with disabilities by local authority in each of the years 2015 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33931/21]
View answerMy Department does not collate statistics in relation to the number of persons with disabilities that are accommodated by local authorities as the allocation of social housing is a matter for individual local authorities and, as Minister, I have no function relating thereto.
However, housing statistics supplied to the Housing Agency, as part of its remit to implement the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability, indicate that in 2019 (the first year in which such statistics were requested by the Agency) 1,206 households with a specific need based on disability were accommodated, while in 2020 the number of such households was 1,921.
