Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 July 2023
370. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to ensure that actions outlined in the Implementation Plan for the Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 are implemented in a timely manner and are adequately resourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32625/23]
View answerMy Department published the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022 – 2027 Implementation Plan on 22 June 2023. It may be accessed on my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/60d76-national-housing-strategy-for-disabled-people-2022-2027/.
The Implementation Plan provides for the detailed implementation of the joint National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022 – 2027 developed by the Housing Agency, my Department, the Department of Health and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth which sets out the Government’s vision for delivering housing and related supports for disabled people to 2027. The Implementation Plan will support the primary objective of the Strategy which is ‘to facilitate disabled people to live independently with the appropriate choices and control over where, how and with whom they live, promoting their inclusion in the community’.
The Strategy and Implementation Plan will operate under the framework of Housing for All-A New Plan for Ireland (published in September 2021) which provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social and environmental sustainability built into the system. The strategy sets out, over four pathways, a broad suite of measures to achieve its policy objectives together with a financial commitment of in excess of €4 billion per annum. The Plan 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.
A National Implementation Steering Group, established in February 2023 and chaired by the Housing Agency, has responsibility to oversee and support uniform implementation and monitoring at national and local level of the actions and outcomes of the Strategy.
