Eoin Ó Broin
Question:100. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the delivery of 9,100 new-build social homes in 2023. [49054/23]
View answerThursday, 9 November 2023
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In 2022 10,263 new social homes were delivered, including 7,433 new-build homes which represented the highest delivery of new build social housing since 1975. In the first half of 2023, 2,298 new social homes were delivered, including 1,401 new-build homes.
Social housing delivery is traditionally weighted to the second half end of the year so we do expect to see a significant increase, similar to 2022, where there was strong delivery, particularly in the final quarter of 2022 with over 6,000 new social homes provided across the build (4,729) Acquisition (635) and Lease (664) delivery streams. I expect this trend will continue and we will see a significant increase in all delivery.
As the Deputy will be aware from the Social Housing Construction Status Report, which my Department published on a quarterly basis, there is a strong pipeline of over 22,600 social homes either on site or at various stages of the design and procurement process.
In overall terms, the outlook for 2023 is positive. Total expenditure on Housing to the end of October was €2.6bn which is €617m ahead of the same period in 2022. My Department will continue to work assertively with local authorities, AHBs, the LDA, and all delivery partners to ramp up the scale of activity across all areas in 2023 and moving forward in future years.