Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022
708. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority houses that were sold and build, respectively; the financial income from sales and the financial spend by year from 2002 to date in tabular form. [40831/22]
View answerHousing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5bn funding through the Housing Finance Agency.
Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes; 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing and 28,500 new affordable homes in the period 2022-2026.
My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity. This data is available to Q1 2022, and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.
Social housing construction is funded through a range of different delivery streams such as local authority direct construction, Part V, turnkey developments and regeneration programmes and through direct construction and turnkey developments delivered by approved housing bodies.
In the period 2016 to end June 2022, funding of €4.514 billion was provided by my Department to local authorities in respect of social housing build programmes. The breakdown of this expenditure annually is set out in the table below. Prior to 2016 housing expenditure was reported on a programme basis only.
|
2016€m |
2017€m |
2018€m |
2019€m |
2020€m |
2021€m |
2022 (to end June)€m |
|
€173m |
€337m |
€745m |
€836m |
€1,032m |
€1,075m |
€316m |
Statistics on the sale of local authority homes is published on my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/0906a-other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics/#sale-of-local-authority-houses.
My Department does not hold the financial information requested on the sale of local authority houses.
