Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 23 November 2022
84. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of houses that have been procured or built by the State for persons with disabilities by county in each of the past five years. [58233/22]
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. 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.
In January 2022, I launched the second joint National Housing Strategy for Disabled People (NHSDP) 2022-2027. This strategy operates within the framework of Housing for All which is committed to ensuring that affordable, quality housing with an appropriate mix of housing design types provided within social housing, including universally designed units, is available to everyone in Irish society, including those with disabilities and older people.
My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity. Data to the end of Quarter 2 2022 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/. While the data does not include specific details on the numbers of units delivered or acquired on behalf of people with disabilities, this data may be available from the individual local authorities.
The Housing Agency also publishes data in relation to the number of social housing allocations to disabled people. Data from 2016- 2020 is available in the NHSDP at the following website gov.ie - National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022–2027 (www.gov.ie)
The Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS), provides that funding of up to 100% of project costs may be advanced by local authorities to Approved Housing Bodies to provide accommodation for priority categories on the housing waiting list including elderly, persons/families who are homeless and people with a disability. Expenditure under this programme from 2017-2021 supported the delivery of 489 units of accommodation for persons with a disability and persons moving out of a congregated setting environment. Details are set out in the table below.
|
Year |
Construction |
Acquisitions |
Totals No of units delivered |
Number of units of accommodation delivered for people with a disability to include persons moving out of a congregated setting environment. |
|
2017 |
70 |
357 |
427 |
85 |
|
2018 |
183 |
302 |
485 |
111 |
|
2019 |
142 |
428 |
570 |
80 |
|
2020 |
156 |
248 |
404 |
102 |
|
2021 |
141 |
211 |
352* |
111 |
*In addition to 352 units of accommodation 150 bed spaces were provided for single homeless individuals.
