Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 April 2023
825. Deputy John Paul Phelan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation (details supplied) in each year from 2010 to 2022; and the projected funding for 2023. [17693/23]
View answer842. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in detail the funding granted to each voluntary housing organisation for the erection or acquisition of residential units for each of the past five years; the number of units erected or acquired, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17857/23]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 825 and 842 together.
There are a broad range of funding and delivery mechanisms available to local authorities to deliver social housing and related supports in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). The funding is primarily provided by my Department directly to local authorities, who in turn, advance the funding to the AHBs, as appropriate.
Details on the funding provided to each individual AHB is not readily available within my Department. However, overall, for the last five years, over €2.7 billion was provided by my Department to the local authorities in respect of a range of AHB funded schemes as follows:
|
Year |
Funding €m |
|
2018 |
348 |
|
2019 |
430 |
|
2020 |
515 |
|
2021 |
633 |
|
2022 |
797 |
|
Total |
2,72 |
Additionally, in respect of homeless expenditure, financial reports from each of the homeless regions, setting out expenditure on homeless services are published on my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/80ea8-homelessness-data/#local-authority-regional-financial-reports/.
My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and AHBs in each local authority, including data on social housing acquisitions and new build delivery. This data is available to the end of 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/.
